According to the provisions of Article 2 of the Prescription Management Measures, prescription refers to the medical documents that are prescribed by registered medical practitioners and assistant medical practitioners (hereinafter referred to as doctors) for patients in the process of diagnosis and treatment, reviewed, prepared and checked by pharmaceutical professional technicians (hereinafter referred to as pharmacists) who have obtained the qualifications for pharmaceutical professional and technical positions, and serve as the medication vouchers for patients. Prescriptions include medical institution ward medication orders.
Prescription is a written certificate for doctors to use drugs for patients, and it is the basis for pharmacists to allocate drugs, which has legal, technical and economic responsibilities. Prescriptions are divided into doctor's prescriptions and legal prescriptions. What I see every day is the doctor's prescription.
The prescriptions of toxic drugs and radioactive drugs for medical use shall strictly abide by the provisions of relevant laws, regulations and rules. The prescription is valid on the date of issuance. If it is necessary to extend the validity period under special circumstances, the prescriber shall indicate the validity period, but the longest validity period shall not exceed 3 days.
Prescription shall generally not exceed 7 days; Emergency prescription shall generally not exceed 3 days; For some chronic diseases, senile diseases or special circumstances, the prescription dose may be appropriately extended, but the doctor should indicate the reasons.
Prescription doses of toxic drugs and radioactive drugs for medical use should be strictly implemented in accordance with relevant state regulations. When making prescriptions, doctors should use the generic names of drugs, the names of patented drugs with new active compounds and the names of compound preparations approved and published by the pharmaceutical supervisory and administrative departments. Doctors should use the name approved by the provincial health administrative department and the drug supervision and administration department when prescribing hospital preparations. Doctors can use the customary names of drugs published by the Ministry of Health to make prescriptions.