ArticleCureus2025
Prescription Audit as a Quality Improvement Tool: Impact of Repeated Interventions in Paediatric Outpatient Department (OPD) and Inpatient Department (IPD) Settings.
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Background In many low- and middle-income country (LMIC) hospitals, prescription auditing is rare due to limited digital infrastructure and weak quality-assurance systems. We evaluated whether repeated audit-feedback cycles could improve prescription completeness and rational drug use in an LMIC tertiary pediatric setting. Methodology Prospective, repeated cross-sectional audits (10 cycles; Nov 2023-Nov 2024) were performed in Pediatrics/Neonatology at a tertiary hospital in India. Cycles used a manual, paper-based process with structured feedback and brief prescriber education; a re-audit occurred eight months later (Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) model). The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a targeted audit and feedback intervention as a strategy to achieve sustained improvement in the overall quality of prescribing practices and documentation standards within our paediatric facility over consecutive PDSA cycles. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 26 (Released 2018; IBM Corp., Armonk, New York, United States) with the Cochran-Armitage Trend Test for trend and paired
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