Prescription Review of Outpatient and Emergency Department in Our Hospital and the Analysis of Irrational Prescriptions

Objective: To evaluate the prescriptions of outpatient and emergency department in our hospital.Methods: Retrospective sampling and analysis were performed followed by statistic calculation.Results: Average number of drugs contained in each prescription of outpatient and emergency department were 2.14 and 2.49 respectively.Among all the prescriptions,6.50% of outpatient department and 34.83% of emergency department were injectable medicines.The rates were 19.67% and 13.83% for antimicrobial drugs,98.81% and 100% for essential drugs and 89.45% and 85% for rational prescription.All the prescriptions used the common names of medicines.Conclusions: Drug usage was reasonable in outpatient and emergency department of our hospital,but there was still need for improvements.