Prescription means: to prescribe medicine to a patient. prescription.

Prescription (foreign name: Prescription, Pinyin: chǔ fāng) is an important written document regarding drug dispensing in medical activities, as stipulated in the Prescription Management Measures (2007 Edition).

Prescriptions refer to prescriptions issued for patients by registered practicing physicians and practicing assistant physicians in diagnosis and treatment activities, reviewed, prepared, and verified by pharmaceutical professional and technical personnel who have obtained pharmaceutical professional and technical qualifications, and as patients Medical documentation for medication use.

Prescriptions are divided into legal prescriptions and physician prescriptions according to their nature. The "Prescription Management Measures" also divide prescriptions into emergency prescriptions, narcotic drug prescriptions, pediatric prescriptions, general prescriptions, etc. The structure of a prescription includes a preface, body, and postscript. Prescriptions include medication orders for wards of medical institutions. Prescription is a written document used by doctors to administer medicine to patients. It is the basis for pharmacists to prepare medicines and has legal, technical and economic responsibilities.

The prescription*** has three parts:

1. Prescription note

Including the full name of the hospital, department, patient name, gender, age, date, etc. Items with special requirements can be added. Prescriptions for narcotic drugs and Class I psychotropic drugs should also include the patient’s identification number, the name of the agent, and the identification number.

2. Prescription

The prescription starts with "R" or "RP", which means to get the following medicines; followed by the main part of the prescription, including the name of the medicine , dosage form, specification, quantity, usage, etc.

3. Prescription postscript

Include the signatures of the doctor, pharmacist, and accountant to show responsibility. The signatures must be in full. Prescriptions include doctor's prescriptions and legal prescriptions. What we see every day are prescriptions from doctors.

Physician's prescription

A physician's prescription is a written document for a physician to administer medication to an individual patient. In addition to being a written document for dispensing medication to a patient, a prescription also has legal, technical and economic significance. Doctors or pharmacists are legally responsible for medical malpractice caused by prescriptions.

The technical significance of a prescription is that it states the drug name, quantity, dosage form, usage and dosage, etc., ensuring the specifications, safety and effectiveness of the drug. From an economic point of view, checking and counting the consumption and economic value of drugs according to prescriptions, especially expensive drugs, poisons and narcotic drugs, provide the basis for reimbursement, procurement, budgeting, production input and cost accounting.