antibiotic prescribing review: rational or irrational therapy?

Cough mixtures: rational or irrational prescribing in Hong Kong?

OBJECTIVES To investigate the extent and how cough mixtures are prescribed, and what conditions or specific groups of people would contribute to its prescription in Hong Kong. METHODS Using diagnosis and drug data obtained from logbooks submitted by participants in the diploma in family medicine course between 1999 and 2003, we selected and analysed all patients with a diagnosis of cough or c...

Irrational antibiotic prescribing: a local issue or global concern?

Resistance to antibiotics is a major public-health concern and antibiotic use is being ever more recognized as the main discriminatory pressure driving this resistance. The aim was to assess the outpatient usage of antibiotics in teaching hospitals in various parts of capital city of Iran, Tehran and its association with resistance. 600 outpatient antibiotic prescriptions between December 2011 ...

EDITORIAL / - Blockade - rational or irrational therapy for congestive heart failure ?

CLINICAL AND BASIC RESEARCH in the arena of congestive heart failure is intensive. Nevertheless, accepted treatment modalities for patients with this debilitating and fatal disease are limited to just three: digitalis, diuretics, and vasodilators, and only the latter has been demonstrated to improve survival in patients with congestive heart failure.1 Although cardiac transplantation markedly r...

Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?

Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objective, rational and true, while religion is irrational and false.

Investors’ Herd Behavior: Rational or Irrational?*

This study examines the relationships between the herding of various investor groups and trading noise in the Taiwan stock market to determine whether any of the investor groups tend to herd rationally. The study uses a unique and comprehensive data set on intraday transactions and limit order books of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). We calculate the high-frequency herding measures and tradin...

Rational and Irrational Bubbles