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 ...

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.

Based on: Prescription Writing, designed for the Use of Medical Students who have never studied Latin. By Frederick Henry Gerrish, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medical ...

FOR the past quarter of a century the Latin used by medical practitioners in writing their prescriptions has become more and more simple, and the use of the vernacular has correspondingly increased.

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 ...