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AN AUDIT OF PRESCRIBING IN AN OBSTETRIC SERVICE
Author(s) -
Lewis P. J.,
Boylan P.,
Bulpitt C. J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1980.tb04471.x
Subject(s) - medical prescription , audit , medicine , family medicine , service (business) , medical emergency , pediatrics , emergency medicine , nursing , business , accounting , marketing
Summary An audit of drug prescribing was carried out in an obstetric service. Sixty‐five different drugs were prescribed in 976 separate prescriptions. Nitrazepam and paracetamol accounted for 75 per cent of all prescriptions. Many of the prescriptions were incomplete. In 83 per cent of cases the drugs prescribed were not referred to in the patients' case notes, suggesting that their prescription did not form part of a therapeutic plan for the patient.