The medical council and
healthcare government bodies on Friday released guidelines for doctors to write
prescriptions. The sweeping guidelines are a welcome relief and will help
reduce errors. Also they give a push to using technology to better comply with
these standards and improve overall patient care.
The new guidelines include
more information about the prescribing doctor, prescribed drugs and also
patient information. Important parameters like the patients’ weight and age
will help pharmacists also catch any errors at their end.
Prescription rules prepared
by the Indian FDA on the basis of the Drug & Cosmetics Act suggest a
uniform format, and advise writing or printing Drug Names in capital letters
and also generic names of drugs as much as possible.
Using prescription software
with basic patient information and pre-entered drug database will increase the
doctor’s productivity in preparing such prescriptions and minimize errors
during writing.
Below is the first look at the actual printed guidelines as shared with Doctors.
