Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem nationally. In an effort to curb this problem, emergency physicians might rely on subjective cues such as race-ethnicity, often unknowingly, when prescribing opioids for pain-related complaints, especially for conditions that are often associated with drug-seeking behavior. Previous studies that examined racial-ethnic disparities in opioid dispensing...

BACKGROUND Prescription of medicines by non-doctors is an issue with serious global implications. To our knowledge prescription of drugs by medical and non-medical students has not been studied before. We aimed to determine the practice and attitudes of drug prescription by medical students and: a) how non-medical students respond to this practice, b) How this compares with the attitudes and pr...

statement of the problem many diseases to be treated by dentists require drug therapy. lack of paying enough attention to principles of drug prescription can lead to problems such as unsuccessful treatment. on the other hand, the most important way to prevent such problems is paying enough attention to prescription of drugs materials and methods in this descriptive study, 260 prescriptions rand...

background and aim: giving improper prescriptions is common among medical practitioners, mostly graduates, in most communities even developed countries. so far, to our knowledge, no study has been conducted on prescription writing of graduate midwifery students. therefore, this study aimed to detect prescription writing errors of midwifery students in common gynecological problems. methods: in ...

UNLABELLED Pharmacists have an important role in detecting, preventing, and solving prescription problems, which if left unresolved, may pose a risk of harming the patient. OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to evaluate the feasibility of a generic study instrument for documentation of prescription problems requiring contact with prescriber before dispensing. The study was organized:...

judicial decisions (fatawa) of some of the most learned juridical authorities in the imamate (shiite) community (maraja' al-taqlid) of present time on medical issues are examined in this paper. they will provide the reader with the responses of the islamic jurisprudence to the most involved medical dilemmas. the paper mainly focuses on the rational viewpoints of the islamic law on permissi...