Definitions:

Medication Errors: A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate
medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional,
patient, or consumer.
Medication administration Record (MAR): A Medication Administration Record, commonly referred
to as a drug chart, is the report that serves as a legal record of the drugs administered to a patient at a
facility by a health care professional. The MAR is a part of a patient's permanent record on their medical
chart.
PO: an adverbial phrase meaning literally from Latin "by opening" or "by way of the opening." The
expression is used in medicine to describe a treatment that is taken orally. The abbreviated P.O. is often
used on medical prescriptions.
PRN: Abbreviation meaning "when necessary" (from the Latin "pro re nata", for an occasion that has
arisen, as circumstances require, as needed).
XL: XL (Extended Release) is delivery systems that extend the release rate of drug for longer period of
time without or with generating constant plasma level and follows pseudo first order release mechanism.
SR: sustained-release. : designed to slowly release a drug in the body over an extended period of time
especially to sustain therapeutic levels sustained-release capsules a sustained-release drug delivery
system.
LASA: Look Alike Sound Alike (drug naming; also seen as LA/SA) LASA. Large Aperture Seismic
Array.
Mg: Abbreviation for milligram, a unit of measurement of mass in the metric system equal to a
thousandth of a gram. A gram is equal to the mass of one milliliter, one thousandth of a liter, of water at 4
degrees C. MG (in capital letters) is the abbreviation for the disease myasthenia gravis.
BID: means twice (two times) a day. It is an abbreviation for "bis in die" which in Latin means twice a
day. The abbreviation b.i.d. is sometimes written without a period either in lower-case letters as "bid" or
in capital letters as "BID".
TID: means three times a day. It is an abbreviation for "ter in die" which in Latin means three times a
day. The abbreviation t.i.d. is sometimes written without a period either in lower-case letters as "tid" or in
capital letters as "TID".