[Ensuring safe medication in the physician's office].
The risk of adverse drug reactions can be appreciably reduced by limiting prescribing practice to a manageable number of medications, exercising restraint with regard to new drugs, and using a computerized system for the documentation of drug prescriptions. In order to further improve patient safety in this area appropriate efforts need to be made by medical self-administration, politicians and the computer industry to develop and apply computer-based prescription systems, with the additional requirement that their integration into existing doctor's office software should be simple and user-friendly, as well as free from "industrial contamination".
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Lehrbereich Allgemeinmedizin, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg. wniebling@t-online.de
D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004346:Drug Information Services; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008509:Medication Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009816:Office Automation; D012984:Software