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Hina Khan¹, Syed Muhammad Masood Ali², Tooba Mahmud Gauhar³, Bilal Suria⁴, Waqas Hussain⁵ and Aymen Arif⁵

ABSTRACT

Objective: To better understand the idea of good prescription writing practices and to provide awareness to medical science students and clinicians of Al-Tibri Medical College and Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital, Isra University Karachi.

Study Design: Cross-sectional / observational study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Al-Tibri Medical College and Karachi Hospital (ATMCH) and Al-Ibrahim Eye Hospital (AIEH) from August 2021 to November 2021 for a period of 04 months.

Materials and Methods: It consisted of two sections such that the first section discussed the demographic data of the participants including age, gender, field of specialization, Medicine professional year, relationship status etc. While, the other section evaluated the skill set. Data was analyzed using SPSS Version 20.0 with level of significance being kept at P-value ≤0.05.

Results: A total of 160 responses were generated. Out of which 90 respondents (56.25%) were male while remaining 70 participants (43.75%) were females with the mean age of 22.0 ± 3.0 years. It has also analyzed the understanding of compliant prescription writing and provided awareness in this regard to the participating individuals (i.e., 6.62% on average with a Standard deviation of 5.0 ± 0.3). About 74.7% (n=119) from 160 participants believed that there is a lot of malpractice to write a good prescription by the practitioners while only 7.6% (n=12) disagreed with the idea. However, to our surprise, a good amount of people i.e., 17.7% (n=29) were have no clue about compliant prescription writing ability.

Conclusion: Compliant prescription writing is a skill which should be acquired by every clinical practitioner and they should have complete knowledge including pharmacodynamics of the therapeutic drug to avoid any inevitable circumstances in the clinical set-up.

Key Words: Prescription, compliance, graduate, medicine, clinicians, therapy, drug.

Citation of article: Khan H, Ali SMM, Gauhar TM, Suria B, Hussain W, Arif A. Compliant Prescription Writing-Dilemma or Reality. Med Forum 2022;33(1):136-140.