The risks of writing informal prescriptions When clinicians write informal prescriptions, their supervising physicians may also suffer the consequences. As medical professionals, we often find ...

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Background: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility.

The study highlights the need to pay attention to antibiotic prescription writing: in fact 1 in 4 prescriptions were not fully completed or were illegible. We think this is a field that could be ...