Causes of prescription corrections (n = 1015)
| Number (%) | |
|---|---|
| Clinical causes | |
| Leaving out basic prescription data | 71 (7.0) |
| Community pharmacy had concerns regarding errors on the prescription | 207 (20.4) |
| Illegible prescription | 11 (1.1) |
| Other, eg: | 232 (22.9) |
| Prescribing a medicine, strength, quantity or dosage that did not exist | |
| Patient wanted the prescription changed | |
| Total (clinical causes) | 521 (51.3) |
| Administrative causes | |
| Medicine not immediately in stock | 91 (9.0) |
| Medicine no longer in stock | 144 (14.2) |
| Prescription changed for practical reasons | 20 (2.0) |
| Problems with substitution of medicine | 25 (2.5) |
| Problems with subsidies | 80 (7.9) |
| False prescription | 3 (0.3) |
| Other, eg: | 55 (5.4) |
| Missing or wrong patient identification | |
| Information about the prescriber was left out | |
| Reported incidents illegible to the coder | 76 (7.5) |
| Total (administrative causes) | 494 (48.7) |
| Total | 1015 (100) |