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.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has instructed all medical colleges to set up sub-committees for monitoring prescription practices and also include in the curriculum the importance of writing ...

You walk out of a doctor's clinic clutching a white sheet of paper that looks like a secret code. The pharmacist squints, nods like a detective who's cracked the Da Vinci code, and hands you a bag ...

The study, a point prevalence survey, took place between 26-30 May 2008 in a North-Eastern University hospital. All 41 inpatient Units were involved, except for ophthalmology and dermatology since ...