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@article{172961,
        author = {VIJAY PRATAP RAGHUVANSHI},
        title = {Implementation of Prescription Review in Hospital},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1462-1473},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=172961},
        abstract = {Prescription Review is a technical review of the list of a patient’s medicines. It addresses issues relating to the prescription or medicines; the patient does not need to be present, nor access to full notes. The medication review seeks to improve or optimize impact of treatment for an individual patient. The review is undertaken in a systematic and comprehensive way, by a competent person. Any changes resulting from the review are agreed with the patient. 
Patient safety is the ultimate goal for any Hospital. Prescription Review enables to improve the safety and quality of medication use. It ensures right medication in right dose at right time and right frequency. It helps to minimize the risk of Drug to Drug and Drug to Food interactions proactively by eliminating any potential medication harm. Therefore, it reduces drug error related morbidity and mortality.
Prescription Review was initiated in In-patient department of the Internal Medicine department as a quality initiative. Moreover, Prescription Review is a accreditation requirement in any of the hospital. Apart from reducing medication errors Prescription Review also reduce the treatment cost to the patients that may arise as a result of preventable medication errors. And more importantly these efforts will help gain patient trust and add on to patient satisfaction.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {February},
        }