[Drug prescription and distribution on the wards. Evaluation of questionnaires (author's transl)].

Weaknesses in the practice of drug prescription and distribution on the wards are presented as the result of this survey. Suggestions for improvement are made which seem suitable for increasing drug safety and reducing drug costs. It should be possible to implement the suggested improvements without much expense. Probably, these improvements would hardly involve any additional time expenditure, since complete documentation, as suggested inter alia, might eliminate time-consuming queries and searching.