Babar Palwasha, Qaiser Uswa, Rehman Ijaz Ur
Palwasha Babar, MDS Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Fatima Memorial Hospital College of Medicine and Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
Uswa Qaiser, BDS Demonstrator, Department of Operative and Pediatric Dentistry, University College of Dentistry, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
Pak J Med Sci. 2024 Jan-Feb;40(1Part-I):170-173. doi: 10.12669/pjms.40.1.7688.
To assess the knowledge and skills of prescription writing among dental house officers from different hospitals.
This cross-sectional study was conducted from July to September, 2022. A self-administered, structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 180 house officers from four teaching dental hospitals (n=45 each). The participants were asked to write a prescription for an adult and a pediatric patient. The prescription was evaluated according to WHO criteria. Analysis was done using SPSS v.20. Data was presented as frequencies and percentages.
Among the 180 participants, 42.9% were males and 57.1% were females. 33.9% participants reported prescription writing to be a difficult task. Only 36.7% participants reported to be trained in prescribing pediatric medications. None of the prescriptions completely fulfilled the WHO criteria. Doctor related information (name, address and contact no) was written by only 3.8% of the participants while 10% of the participants mentioned the patient related information (name, address and age). Dosage of the prescribed drugs was the most commonly drug-related missing parameter which was mentioned in 30% of the pediatric prescriptions and 21% of the adult prescriptions.
There is a general lack of knowledge among the dental house officers regarding prescription writing as they were found to be unaware of the essential elements of a prescription. The findings call for an urgent change in the undergraduate teaching of prescription writing skills with special emphasis on pediatric drugs and dosage.
评估来自不同医院的牙科住院医师的处方书写知识和技能。
本横断面研究于2022年7月至9月进行。采用自行填写的结构化问卷，从四家教学牙科医院的180名住院医师（每家医院45名）收集数据。要求参与者为一名成人患者和一名儿科患者开具处方。根据世界卫生组织标准对处方进行评估。使用SPSS v.20进行分析。数据以频率和百分比表示。
在180名参与者中，42.9%为男性，57.1%为女性。33.9%的参与者表示处方书写是一项艰巨的任务。只有36.7%的参与者报告接受过儿科用药处方培训。没有一份处方完全符合世界卫生组织标准。只有3.8%的参与者填写了医生相关信息（姓名、地址和联系电话），而10%的参与者提到了患者相关信息（姓名、地址和年龄）。规定药物的剂量是最常见的与药物相关的缺失参数，在30%的儿科处方和21%的成人处方中被提及。
牙科住院医师在处方书写方面普遍缺乏知识，因为他们被发现不知道处方的基本要素。这些发现呼吁在本科阶段紧急改变处方书写技能的教学，特别强调儿科药物和剂量。
