Background Prescribing is a complex task, requiring specific knowledge and skills, and the execution of effective, contextspecific clinical reasoning. Systematic reviews indicate medical prescribing errors have a median rate of 7% [IQR 2%-14%] of medication orders [1-3]. For podiatrists pursuing prescribing rights, a clear need exists to ensure practitioners develop a well-defined set of prescr...

in the past two decades, the number of countries giving the permission of prescribing to nurses has increased. nowadays, in countries such as australia, south africa, ireland, finland, canada, norway, new zealand, sweden, britain, spain, and america, nurses have the legal right to prescribe medicine. nurse prescribing can enhance the quality of care, save patients’ time and money, promote occup...

The report presented findings that the prescribing information of eight proprietary medicines containing codeine or other opioid-like compounds as published in Master Index of Medical Specialties (MIMS), a popular prescribing handbook in Hong Kong, did not include age-adjusted dosages for children and did not warn against their use in young children. As such, the authors warned medical practiti...

Identifying the indicators of good quality medication prescribing assists physicians in preventing medication errors. This study in Riyadh city aimed to examine the relationship between physicians' self-reported influences on prescribing and the quality of their prescribing, defined as the completeness and accuracy of their prescription documentation. A sample of 600 randomly selected prescript...

Using data from 288 general practices in England and Wales contributing data to the General Practice Research Database in 1996, we derived age-sex specific antibiotic prescribing and exposure rates. The overall antibiotic prescribing rate was 607 per 1000 in males and 852 per 1000 in females. In both males and females, prescribing rates were highest in children aged 0-4 years and in the elderly...

A systematic approach advocated by the World Health Organization can help minimize poor-quality and erroneous prescribing. This six-step approach to prescribing suggests that the physician should (1) evaluate and dearly define the patient's problem; (2) specify the therapeutic objective; (3) select the appropriate drug therapy; (4) initiate therapy with appropriate details and consider nonpharm...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence and patterns of high risk prescribing, defined as potentially inappropriate prescribing of drugs to primary care patients particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events. DESIGN Cross sectional population database analysis. SETTING General practices in Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 315 Scottish general practices with 1.76 million registered patients, 139 404 (7...

BACKGROUND Antipsychotics are recognised as a critical intervention for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Guidelines globally endorse the routine practice of antipsychotic monotherapy, at the minimum effective dose. Even in treatment-resistant schizophrenia, clozapine use is endorsed before combining antipsychotics. This aim of this study was to review antipsychotic polytherapy alone, high-do...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the training provisions in practical safe prescribing for foundation doctors in NHS hospitals located in the South Thames region. METHODS A web-based questionnaire was distributed by e-mail to all 1762 foundation doctors in the South Thames Foundation School (STFS) region. In addition, a separate questionnaire was distributed to prescribing tr...

BACKGROUND The prescribing of antidepressants has been rising dramatically in developed countries. AIM As part of an investigation into the reasons for the rise and variation in the prescribing of antidepressants, this study aimed to describe, and account for, the variation in an age-sex standardised rate of antidepressant prescribing between general practices. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-section...