Good prescribing: better systems and prescribers needed

Good prescribing: better systems and prescribers needed.

How good are doctors as drug prescribers?

The training of doctors in therapeutics has created interesting discussions internationally. A survey of senior hospital pharmacists currently practising throughout West Malaysia was embarked on during a recent postgraduate seminar. About sixty per cent said prescribing errors were common amongst doctors. Sixteen per cent of the prescribing errors were potentially serious. Most of the time erro...

A Better Prescription Is Needed

THE PROBLEM OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE HAS BEEN evident almost from the time antimicrobial drugs entered the pharmacopoeia. However, the clinical impact of resistance has been difficult to measure for a variety of reasons, including separating out the effect of underlying illness and the availability of at least 1 effective drug for most infections. Antimicrobial resistance also has economic c...

chinese medical personnel: better sleep hygiene needed

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Better Best Systems – Too Good To Be True

Craig Callender, Jonathan Cohen and Markus Schrenk have recently argued for an amended version of the best system account of laws – the better best system account (BBSA). This account of lawhood is supposed to account for laws in the special sciences, among other desiderata. Unlike David Lewis’s original best system account of laws, the BBSA does not rely on a privileged class of natural predic...