prescribing errors

Question 1

Discuss the types of ADRs with common examples.

Answer 1

1- Patient: 
-misinformation of medical history 
-Polypharmacy 
2-Workload: 
-no time to double check work
-pressure to discharge 
3-Lack of communication 
4- prescribing errors:
-Faults- failure to decide what drug to prescribe
e.g. limited knowledge, drug-drug interactions, allergies 
-Errors- failures in transcribing 
e.g. illegible writing, abbreviations, numbers, drugs which are written similar but do very different things

Question 2

Discuss the methods available for detection and reporting of ADRs.

Answer 2

• anecdotal reporting
• voluntary report to committee on safety of medicine- yellow card
• cohort studies
• case-control studies