Computerised dental prescriptions needed to improve patient safety

摘要

Dentists should move towards issuing computerised prescriptions. This was a motion proposed by Richard Goodwin, a third-year student at the University of Bradford. A good reason for the proposal was that such a move Would make prescriptions easier to read and, therefore, improving patient safety, Mr Goodwin said. It was also suggested that this would eradicate occasions when the dentist prescribes something that is not in the dental practitioners' formulary.