Assessment of Prescriptions in the Endocrinology Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Pakistan Using World Health Organization Guidelines

Table 3

Commission and omission errors (N = 100).

Type of error	No. of prescriptions contains error	Percentage (%)
Drug name error	10/109	9.17
Dosage form (NM)	20/100	3.84
Strength of the dosage form (NM)	67/520	12.8
Duration of therapy (NM)	00	00
Frequency (NM)	57/520	10.9
Patient name (NM)	01	01
Patient name duplicated	02	02
Patient address (NM)	13	13
Age (NM)	07	07
Gender (NM)	00	00
Weight (NM)	01	01
Diagnosis (NM)	00	00
Total	178	60.7

NM = not mentioned.