ArticleGlobal journal of health science2015
The Study of Prescribing Errors Among General Dentists.
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- Comparison of physicians' and dentists' incident reports in open data from the Japan Council for Quality Health Care: a mixed-method study.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Dispensing patterns of medicines prescribed by Australian dentists from 2006 to 2018 - a pharmacoepidemiological study.International dental journal · 2020Article
- Are Dutch dental students and dental-care providers competent prescribers of drugs?European journal of oral sciences · 2019Article
- Assessment of Quality of Prescription Writing among Dental and Medical Students and Practitioners in Kerala.Journal of natural science, biology, and medicineArticle
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Abstract
introductionIn dentistry, medicine often prescribed to relieve pain and remove infections .Therefore, wrong prescription can lead to a range of problems including lack of pain, antimicrobial treatment failure and the development of resistance to antibiotics. MATERIALS &
methodsIn this cross-sectional study, the aim was to evaluate the common errors in written prescriptions by general dentists in Kermanshah in 2014. Dentists received a questionnaire describing five hypothetical patient and the appropriate prescription for the patient in question was asked. Information about age, gender, work experience and the admission in university was collected. The frequency of errors in prescriptions was determined. Data by SPSS 20statistical software and using statistical t-test, chi-square and Pearson correlation were analyzed (0.05> P).
resultsA total of 180 dentists (62.6% male and 37.4% female) with a mean age of 8.23 ± 39.199 participated in this study. Prescription errors include the wrong in pharmaceutical form (11%), not having to write therapeutic dose (13%), writing wrong dose (14%), typos (15%), error prescription (23%) and writing wrong number of drugs (24%). The most frequent errors in the administration of antiviral drugs (31%) and later stages of antifungal drugs (30%), analgesics (23%) and antibiotics (16%) was observed. Males dentists compared with females dentists showed more frequent errors (P=0.046). Error frequency among dentists with a long work history (P>0.001) and the acceptance in the university except for the entrance examination (P=0.041) had a statistically significant relationship.
conclusionThis study showed that the written prescription by general dentists examined contained significant errors and improve prescribing through continuing education of dentists is essential.
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