Assessment of Legibility and Completeness of Prescriptions at Tertiary Care Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study

[摘要] Aims. The aim of this study was to assess the legibility as well ascomponents of a prescription prescribed by doctors in tertiarycare hospitals of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.Methods. An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted inpharmacies of two allied hospitals of Rawalpindi Medical University. Data were collected using stratified randomized sampling.A total of 661 prescriptions were selected and analysed for legibilityby three experts. SPSS version 26.00 and Graph Pad Prism were usedto enter and analyze the data. Descriptive statistics, correlationalmodel and multinomial logistic regression were applied.Results. A total of 1982 drugs were prescribed in 661 prescriptions. A total of 46.0% prescriptions were classified in grade 2and 32.1% in grade 3. On average, 55.74% prescriptions werefound to be complete. On average, prescriber’s information,patient’s information and medication details were present in72.64%, 57.25%, and 36.73% prescriptions, respectively. Grade 1(AOR = 0.62), grade 2 (AOR = 0.83), and grade 3 (AOR = 0.85)prescriptions had less odds of being complete compared tograde 4 prescriptions.Conclusion. Majority of the prescriptions prescribed at tertiarycare hospitals were barely legible and also quite a number of prescriptions were incomplete.

[学科分类] 计算机科学（综合）