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<Journal>
<Journal-Info>
<name>International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences</name>
<website>ijpbs.net</website>
<email>editorijpbs@rediffmail.com (or) editorofijpbs@yahoo.com (or) prasmol@rediffmail.com</email>
</Journal-Info>
<article>
<article-id pub-id-type='other'>10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12</article-id>
<issue_number>Volume 1 Issue 2</issue_number>
<issue_period>2010 (April - June) </issue_period>
<title>Assessment of Prescription Errors Related to Antimicrobials - A Prospective Study</title>
<abstract>Prescription errors related to use of Antimicrobial agents (AMAs) basing on Patient's demographics viz. age &amp; sex and a database was constructed for such awareness program. From 150 prescriptions, the error regarding prescription of antimicrobial agents without hypersensitivity test or diagnosis of specific parasite male patients shown a higher proportion (92%) followed by the female patients (87.8%). The data revealed that such errors were almost in a similar proportion in the male patients and female patients (51.3% and 51.2% respectively). Unauthorized synergistic combinations of antimicrobial agents with low therapeutic index were greater in male patients (20.27%) than in female patients (14.63%). Prescribing mistakes need to be acknowledged, taken seriously, discussed openly, and actions taken in a blame free culture. Pharmacists' collusion in the current low profile of prescribing mistakes, giving verbal feedback to the prescriber, or writing on sticky notes must be stopped  lessThan br / greaterThan  </abstract>
<authors>N.A.Khan, M.Abid and A.Patra</authors>
<keywords> Antimicrobial agents, adverse drug event, statistical process control, gastro intestinal tract. </keywords>
<pages>-</pages>
</article>
</Journal>
