The 5 Rights of Medicine Administration

It is important the right patient gets the right drug by the right route in the right dose at the right time. these are the 5 rights of medicine administration.

An example of this would be Betametasone 0.1% ointment containing 0.1g of betamethasone in 100g of base ointment.

How many milligrams of betamethasone are in 1g of ointment?

We can use the following arithmetical method based on proportions (colloquially called the “Want/Got” formulae) as long as we are careful to use the same units.

So considering our question about Betamethasone above…….