Prescribing And Ordering Of Drugs Policy

Yes

No

Option 3

Option 4

Yes

No

Herbal or homeopathic remedy

Vaccine or insulin preparation

Dietary supplement or food supplement

Based on doctor`s preference and his experience 

Over- the-counter’ drug or ‘general sale product’

True

False

Therapeutic substitution of drugs

Replacement of brand by appropriate generic 

Changing the active ingrediant if the ordered drug name is out of stock 

Interchanging biosimilar drugs on pharmacy level

Process of creating the most accurate list possible of all medications a patient is taking including drug name, dosage, frequency, and route and comparing that list against the physician’s admission, transfer, and/or discharge orders, with the goal of providing correct medications to the patient at all transition points within the hospital.

It is equal to prescription approprietness review 

Process of ensuring that a hospital patient's medication list is as up-to-date as possible. It is must be taken by pharmacist only and may include consulting several sources such as the patient, their relatives or caregivers, or their primary care physician.

Pharmacy performs 100% or medication reconciliation properly , accurately by updating the patient`s own medications  form only .

Maximum frequency , route of administration , diagnosis

Maximum dose , frequency , indication

Daily dose, route of administration, indication 

Quantity of required units, frequency , indication

Name of the patient and Medical record No, Gender and age ,diagnosis, Allergies , brand name (not mandatory) generic name and quantity required.

Patient`s identification sticker ,diagnosis, Allergies ,drug and dosage form,generic name and quantity required., doctor`s stamp and signature 

Name of the patient and Medical record No, Gender and age ,diagnosis, Allergies ,drug and dosage form, brand name (not mandatory) generic name .

 Caspofungin , Anidulafungin , Ceftaroline

.Amphotericin , Ertapenem, Linezolid

Tigecycline ,Ceftolozane-Tazobactam

Ceftazidime- Avibactam , Imipenem

True

False

Known as drug switching and therapeutic interchange, is the practice of replacing a patient's prescription drugs with chemically different drugs that are expected to have the same clinical effect.

Equal to replacing brands by generics of same chemical active ingredient 

It can be done by pharmacist if doctor changed the order verbally 

Drug which, in its relationship to a prescribed drug, is –within the same therapeutic category but chemically different (e.g. which has the same relationship to the prescribed drug as ranitidine has to cimetidine), or a different moiety of the same parent compound (e.g. which has the same relationship to the prescribed drug as ofloxacin has to ciprofloxacin

A&D

True

False

True

False