IMPORTANCE Office-based opiate agonist therapy has dramatically expanded access to medication-assisted treatment over the past decade but has also led to increased buprenorphine diversion. OBJECTIVE Our study sought to characterize physicians who participate in office-based therapy (OBT) to assess patient access to OBT in Ohio 10 years after its introduction. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS Cro...

rational prescribing increases the quality of health care and patient outcomes. in this study, the quality of drug prescription in specialist physicians in isfahan province of iran was assessed for evaluating the rational use of drugs and improving the therapeutic outcomes.this retrospective survey was conducted on a total of 7999530 prescriptions from all general and specialist physicians. the...

Current guidance on non-medical prescribing of controlled drugs (CDs)is a misinterpretation the law as written. Over four years after obtaining legal right to prescribe Schedule 2 and 3 drugs, therapeutic radiographer paramedic independent prescribers are still being advised that they cannot do so by their professional regulator. This has arisen from one government department believing this nee...

A dilemma for designers In this issue of the journal, Russ et al present a discussion of our paper. In our study, we found that prescribers were not utilizing all eprescribing system functions, despite the functions’ potential to improve efficiency of work, and a consequence of this was the generation of clinically unnecessary alerts. In their response, ‘When ‘technically preventable’ alerts oc...

In an era of ever-increasing antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial stewardship plays a vital role in improving patient outcomes and ensuring the appropriate use of these agents. In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Hamilton et al acknowledge that most formalized antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) do not currently employ a routine intervention with the antibiotic prescriber at th...

Background One of the most important steps of the health transformation program involves the application of electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions) in health services. Information technologies are highly important in generating e-prescriptions, which can be described as a document produced by authorized personnel electronically, containing written information and instructions regarding...