• Y Neyaz, T Khoja, N A Qureshi, M A Magzoub, A Haycox, and T Walley.
• General Directorate for Quality Development, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• East. Mediterr. Health J. 2011 Feb 1;17(2):167-71.

AbstractIdentifying the indicators of good quality medication prescribing assists physicians in preventing medication errors. This study in Riyadh city aimed to examine the relationship between physicians' self-reported influences on prescribing and the quality of their prescribing, defined as the completeness and accuracy of their prescription documentation. A sample of 600 randomly selected prescriptions written by 87 physicians were rated as high or low quality. The same physicians completed a questionnaire to determine the indicators of quality prescribing. The 7 components identified with factor loadings +0.5 or -0.5 were subjected to binary logistic regression modelling. While a range of potential quality indicators of drug prescribing were identified, none of the variables underpinning the 7components/factors survived the binary logistic regression mode. More studies are needed that take into account other quality indicators of medication prescribing in Saudi Arabia.

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