Differential education concerning therapeutics and resultant physician prescribing patterns

Continuing education in therapeutics: aids to discussions on prescribing.

Specialists in pharmacotherapeutics have recently been taken to task for being engrossed in matters of dubious clinical relevance and for not showing more concern with educating doctors in how to use drugs properly.' Consequently, many doctors still depend largely on drug companies for information about drugs, and lack the opportunity to discuss therapeutic choices and problems with their colle...

Physician Education Intervention Influenced Prescribing for Otitis Media RESEARCH

RESULTS: After the CME, intervention physicians (n=9) more frequently diagnosed otitis media with effusion (OME) (28% of all OM diagnoses) compared to nonintervention physicians (n=90) (11.1% OME diagnoses) (p =0.003). Analysis of 1938 OM episodes showed CME intervention physicians wrote prescriptions for 59% (95% confidence Interval (52%-66%) of episodes compared to 88% (95% CI = 82-90%) of ep...

Physician prescribing patterns of oral corticosteroids for musculoskeletal injuries.

BACKGROUND There is considerable controversy as to when and if oral corticosteroids are indicated for musculoskeletal injury. Although the perception is that sports medicine physicians prescribe oral corticosteroids frequently, there is no documentation of this behavior in the literature. The purpose of this study was to obtain a description of the corticosteroid-prescribing patterns of primary...

Physician connectivity: electronic prescribing.

Changing physician prescribing behaviour.

Didactic approaches to educating physicians and/or other health professionals do not produce changes in learner behaviour. Similarly, printed materials and practice guidelines have not been shown to change prescribing behaviour. Evidence-based educational approaches that do have an impact on provider behaviour include: teaching aimed at identified learning needs; interactive educational activit...