OBJECTIVE To identify the adherence rate of a statin treatment and possible related factors in female users from the Unified Health System. METHOD Seventy-one women were evaluated (64.2 ± 11.0 years) regarding the socio-economic level, comorbidities, current medications, level of physical activity, self-report of muscular pain, adherence to the medical prescription, body composition and bioch...

Purpose: This study presents how a clinical decision support system can help in prescription and knowledge acquisition processes. Design/methodology/approach: An integrated Electronic Medical Records System (iEMRS) is designed to enhance the decision support quality in prescription. Findings: By evaluating the system performance through 135 prescription records collected from a Hong Kong medica...

BACKGROUND Despite strong evidence for beta-blockers and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) in chronic heart failure (CHF), they have been under-utilised especially in general medical units. We aim to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a physician-targeted quality improvement intervention with education and feedback on the prescript...

BACKGROUND Rates of antibiotic prescription in Canada far exceed generally accepted rates of bacterial infection, which led the authors to postulate that rates of antibiotic prescription depend to some extent on factors unrelated to medical indication. The associations between antibiotic prescription rates and physician characteristics, in particular, method of remuneration and patient volume, ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence of hysterectomy for women aged 18-45 seeking treatment at a chronic pain clinic, to describe patient characteristics (pain intensity, age, smoking status, hormone replacement status, and psychosocial factors) based on opioid and hysterectomy status, and to determine whether hysterectomy status predicted receipt of opioid prescription. DESIGN Retrospective...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) prescription in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in a general hospital and the suitability of the recommendations from the clinical practice guidelines. METHOD A descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study of the indication-prescription type, carried out on patients admitted to medical departments and fo...