Reason for prescribing | Medication orders prescribed (%) |
---|---|
Regular medicine not prescribed | 799 (56.5) |
New medicine | 184 (13.0) |
Incorrectly prescribed medicines | 102 (7.2) |
Medicines stopped | 10 (0.7) |
Medicine dose change | 27 (1.9) |
Rewritten for clarity | 49 (3.5) |
Unknown | 244 (17.2) |
Total | 1415 (100) |