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Table 1 Summary of prescriptions and medications analyzed

From: Nature of dispensing errors in selected hospitals providing free healthcare: a multi-center study in Sri Lanka

 

SH1

SH2

SH3

Total

Number of prescriptions

248

84

88

420

Number of medicines

1010

400

439

1849

Mean number of medicines in a prescription (SD)

4.1 (2.3)

4.7

(2.5)

5.0

(2.3)

4.4

(2.3)

Total number of dispensing errors detected

9326

3036

4327

16,689

  1. (Total number of prescriptions analyzed was used as the denominator to analyze the average number of medications in a prescription. SD Standard Deviation)