ERRORS IN SPECIAL CONTROL PRESCRIPTION AND PRESCRIPTION NOTIFICATION DONE BY NON-MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Rebeca Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Mota, Ionara Vieira Rocha da, Lemos, Lucas Brasileiro, Almeida, Paulo Henrique Ribeiro Fernandes, Rosa, Mário Borges, Lemos, Gisele da Silveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Atenção à Saúde
• DOI: 10.13037/ras.vol16n55.4862
• Texto Completo: http://seer.uscs.edu.br/index.php/revista_ciencias_saude/article/view/4862
• topic: Prescrição de medicamentos; erros de medicação; odontólogos; médicos-veterinários; Drug prescription; medication errors; dentists; veterinarians

Introduction: Dental surgeons and veterinary doctors are legally entitled to prescribe drugs under special control with indication within their areas of practice. However, there is a gap in studies that describe the completeness of prescriptions performed by non-medical professionals according to laws and health and ethical standards established in Brazil. Objective: To evaluate errors in prescription notifications and white prescriptions of drugs subject to special control by Portaria 344/1998, which have been performed by non-medical professionals, dental surgeons, and veterinarians. Methodology: A cross-sectional study, based on documentary analysis of prescriptions that were filed in a community pharmacy from a municipality in the state of Bahia, with the application of a standardized form. The EpiData 3.1 and SPSS 21.0 software helped to tabulate and analyze the data, described in absolute and relative frequency and with mean and standard deviation of significance level p<0.05. Results: A total of 235 prescriptions of which 67.7% (159) were done by dental surgeons and 32.3% (76) by veterinarians were analyzed. The association paracetamol with codeine predominated in 69.8% of the revenues of dentists, and antiepileptics prevailed in 75% of the recipes of veterinarians. There was a total of 1,529 prescribing errors among veterinary surgeons and dentists, and veterinarians had a higher average. Conclusion: To make prescriptions with complete data is the best way to avoid errors and to promote an adequate and safe therapeutics for the user population.