Administrative, Pharmaceutical, and Clinical Analysis of Doctor’s Prescriptions at Puskesmas X, West Bandung Regency

Abstract

Prescription screening is an assessment of the suitability of prescriptions to minimize the occurrence of medication errors. The aim of this study was to compare the discrepancies of electronic prescriptions and manual prescriptions in administrative, pharmaceutical and clinical aspects. The sampling method is retrospective, namely research based on data from pharmacy prescription archives. Data analysis in Microsoft Excel 2013 during July - December 2024 with 10.127 electronic prescriptions and 1.447 manual prescriptions. The results analysis of electronic prescriptions in administrative and pharmaceutical aspects did not find discrepancies, but there were still some discrepancies in clinical aspect is drug interactions (11%). And the results analysis of manual prescription in administrative aspect found discrepancies is age (6%), gender (16%), weight (32%), patient address (24%), doctor's name (41%), date of prescription (35%), prescription origin unit (38%), in pharmaceutical analysis found discrepancies is the strength of the preparation (19%) and availability (12%), in clinical aspect found discrepancies is drug interactions (10%). The conclusion in this study that electronic prescriptions can reduce medication errors in administrative and pharmaceutical aspects.