Abstract

IDEAL DRUG PRESCRIPTION WRITING

Ajay Kumar*, Prof. Saurabh Jain, Indu Dangi, Shalini Chowdary, Omprakash Choubitker, Krishna Kumar Pandey and Dr. R.S. Pawar

ABSTRACT

The prescription is one of the most important therapeutic transaction between physician and patient .The word „prescription‟ derive from pre (before) and „script‟ (writing written ) which denotes that it is an order that must be written down before or for the prescription and administration of drug. Commonly the term prescription is used to mean an order to take certain medication. A prescription(Rx) is defined as a health care program implemented by a physician in the form of instruction that govern the plan care for an individual patient .the fact that a prescription instructs some one to „tack‟ rather then „give‟ make it clear that it is directed at the patient and is not directly an instruction to anyone else. Prescription writing is a crucial task and suggests prescriber‟s responsibility to wards the clinical care and the safe monitoring of the patient thus also carries legal implication. It is a written order for the medication to be used for diagnosis prevention and treatment of specific patient directed by physician. The art of prescription writing is ancient in origin and had complex prescriptions which were in latin, recently, it is being greatly replaced by English and the contemporary practices are more simplified and systematic.

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