medical prescription

instructions governing the plan of care for an individual patient, often written authorization to obtain a drug from a pharmacist
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Summary

medical prescription ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,552 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • medical prescription is a type of document[2].
  • medical prescription is a type of instruction[3].
  • medical prescription's Commons category is recorded as Medical prescriptions[4].
  • medical prescription's Unicode character is recorded as ℞[5].
  • medical prescription comprises information[6].
  • medical prescription comprises signature[7].
  • medical prescription comprises electronic signature[8].
  • medical prescription's has cause is recorded as prescriber[9].
  • medical prescription's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[10].
  • medical prescription's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • medical prescription's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • medical prescription's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[13].
  • medical prescription's described by source is recorded as Q116203617[14].
  • medical prescription's used by is recorded as prescriber[15].
  • medical prescription's used by is recorded as healthcare provider[16].
  • medical prescription's addressee is recorded as patient[17].
  • medical prescription's addressee is recorded as pharmacist[18].
  • medical prescription's addressee is recorded as healthcare provider[19].
  • medical prescription's different from is recorded as patient information leaflet[20].
  • medical prescription's different from is recorded as recipe[21].
  • medical prescription's uses is recorded as electronic prescribing[22].
  • medical prescription's uses is recorded as prescription pad[23].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include document[2] and instruction[3].

Use and Application

Components include information[6], signature[7], and electronic signature[8]. Recorded used by include prescriber[15] and healthcare provider[16].

Why It Matters

medical prescription ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,552 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · فيصل · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', '
    Sitelink count → 55
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: Q116203617"
  2. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0273706-lekarske-predpisy
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0273706-lekarske-predpisy, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  3. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Used by → —
    Addressee → patient, pharmacist, healthcare provider
    Different from → patient information leaflet, recipe
    Local thumb → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 5840, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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