Name: Elijah John R.

Balois Date: September 12, 2020

Section: BSPh 2-Y1-1S Score: _________________

Exercise No. 4
Parts of a Prescription and Types of Prescription Errors Based on the Generics Act

Objectives:

At the end of this exercise, the student should be able to:

1. identify the parts of a prescription
2. identify the error in the prescription based on the Generics Act

Materials:
Actual prescription

A. Attach a sample of prescription and label its parts (at least 8 parts).

Prescriber’s information
information

Patient’s information
Date

Superscription

Inscription
Subscription

Signa

Refill instruction Refill

Type of prescription
error:_________________________
Explanation:____________________
______________________________
B. Identify the error in the prescription based on the Generics Act. Write your answer on the
space provided.

No. 1

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Erroneous Prescription
EXPLANATION:
The brand name is written before the generic
name and the one that should be in parenthesis
is the brand name, not the generic name.
No. 2

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Erroneous Prescription
EXPLANATION:
The brand name is written before generic name.
No. 3

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Impossible Prescription

EXPLANATION:
The generic name does not match with the
brand name.
No. 4

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Violative Prescription

EXPLANATION:
“No substitution” is added in the prescription
preventing dispensing of generic.
 No. 5

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Violative Prescription

EXPLANATION:
The writings are hard to read.
 No. 6

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Impossible Prescription

EXPLANATION:
The drug that is written is not FDA registered.
 No. 7

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Impossible prescription
EXPLANATION:
The drug written is hard to read and it only contains
generic name.
No. 8

TYPE OF PRESCRIPTION ERROR:

Erroneous Prescription

EXPLANATION:
The brand name is not in parenthesis
Questions:

1. What are the penalties for violating the Generics Act?

 Anyone who shall violate sections 6(a) and 6(b) will receive penalties such as:
 The penalty of reprimanded and it will be recorded in Professional
Regulation Commission in the first conviction.
 A penalty of fine not less than 2,000 pesos and not more than 5,000
pesos for the second conviction
 A penalty of fine not less than 5,000 pesos and not more than
10,000 pesos with suspension of license for 30 days for the third
conviction
 A penalty of fine not less than10,000 pesos and suspension of
license for one year

2. Differentiate the parts of a Prescription.

a. Superscription - medication being prescribe, the dose and dosage form

b. Subscription – how much medication the patient should receive.
c. Inscription – name and the quantity of each ingredient. Name and dosage strength of
prescribed medication.
d. Transcription – prescriber’s direction to the patient about the drug on when it should
be taken.
e. Refill instructions – indicates how many times a patient can use the prescription to
refill the medication
f. Patient’s information – contains the patient’s full name, age, birthday, gender, height,
and weight
g. Prescriber’s information – contains prescriber’s name, office address, and contact
information
h. Date – when the prescription was issued

3. Define the following prescription errors:

a. Erroneous prescription – it is when the prescription had the brand name written
before the generic name, the one in parenthesis is the generic name and not the
brand name and when there is more than one drug is prescribed.

b. Violative prescription – when the generic name is not written or hard to be read and
“no substitution” is written in the instruction.

c. Impossible prescription – when only generic name is written and hard to be read,
when both generic and brand name is not written properly, when the generic and the
brand name is not match and when the drug is not registered in FDA.
 4. Draw/Attach a diagram of FDA Generic dispensing flow chart

Reference/s:

Republic Act no. 06675, 1988. s. 12.

Retrieved from https://www.doh.gov.ph/node/3184

Tacio. (2013). Generic Dispensing Flowchart Based On Philippine FDA.

Retrieved from: http://rxistsource.blogspot.com/2013/06/generic-dispensing-flowchart-based-

on.html

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