Prescription audit

Uk audit of childhood growth hormone prescription, 1998.

AIMS To identify all young people prescribed growth hormone in the UK as of 1 October 1998 and to determine their age, sex, and the indication for therapy. METHODS Cross sectional national postal audit through members of the British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (BSPED) and other paediatricians identified as potential prescribers of growth hormone. Main outcome measures we...

Oxycodone--an audit of its prescription in a local hospital.

AIM This study aims to evaluate the prescription patterns and side effects of oxycodone in a local hospital setting. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of all patients who were prescribed oxycodone for acute or chronic pain from June to November 2007. Patients' names were obtained from the hospital pharmacy and data were collected with a set of questionnaire after review o...

Effect of medical audit on prescription of palliative radiotherapy.

Audit of oxygen prescribing before and after the introduction of a prescription chart.

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Interventions to reduce antibiotic prescription for lower respiratory tract infections: Happy Audit study.

This before-after study aimed to evaluate the effect of two interventions on lowering the prescription of antibiotics in lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) in Spain. General practitioners (GPs) registered all cases with LRTIs over 3-week periods before and after an intervention, in 2008 and 2009. Two types of intervention were considered: full-intervention group (FIG), consisting of disc...