GUESS EDITORIAL: TOWARDS MORE RATIONAL PRESCRIBING

Towards More Rational and Responsible Patient Care

The goal of research in any branch of clinical medicine should be to provide better care for the patient. The ultimate criterion which determines the relevance and effectiveness of all our academic exercise is the extent to which they have helped us reach this goal. In a developing country like India, where financial resources and manpower for health programs are limited, it is important that m...

antibiotic prescribing review: rational or irrational therapy?

Promoting more conservative prescribing.

ALTHOUGH MEDICAL AND PHARMACY CURRICULA and journals are rich with information about drugs and treatment of specific diseases, there is a paucity of education on ways to become effective lifetime prescribers. Two recent reports from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) lamented the current state of pharmacology teaching and the disturbing extent of pharmaceutical industry influen...

Editorial Commentary Resistant Hypertension or Resistant Prescribing?

The term “resistant hypertension” (RH) evokes a myriad of clinical descriptions, nearly all of which implicitly ascribe origins of the problem to characteristics inherent within the patient or maleficent qualities of the disease itself. The need for an operational definition to help identify and prioritize a higher-than-average-risk population that could benefit from special diagnostic and ther...

Promoting Rational Drug Prescribing in General Practice

Vægter, K. 2013. Promoting Rational Drug Prescribing in General Practice. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 858. 64 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8582-5. Aims: To introduce the concepts “quality assurance”, “rational drug prescribing” and “outreach visits” in general practice in Storstrøm County, Denmark and stud...