Recording inpatient weight: implications for medicines administration.

Aim: To identify the proportions of hospital inpatients with recorded weights: among all patients, and among those receiving weight-dosed drug therapy.

Method: Survey of clinical notes of hospital inpatients across a convenience sample of 11 secondary and tertiary referral hospitals in England and Wales in November 2011.

Results: 1068 patients were included, and 1061 patient clinical notes were available (99.