Introduction The Medication Prescription and Administration Record (Kardex) must always be legible and complete. It is this initial point of prescription writing that opens the way for errors and ...

Results June 2010–150 doses (24%) missed out of 618 doses due, including 129 doses (21%) with no record of administration. February 2011–30 doses (27%) missed out of 113 doses due, including 24 doses ...

involved medication administration records (MAR). Following expert review, 208 errors (21%) were deleted because they had been inappropriately coded as errors and 97 (10%) were added as they were not ...

after checking the medicine administration record, the carer only needs to verify the identity of the resident and administer the tablets from the compartment that relates to the date and time.