Ambulatory e-prescribing appears to be a straightforward automation effort that electronically connects a prescriber to an electronic network so an e-script can be sent to a pharmacy. A benefits dependency network (BDN) traces the path from an IS/IT enabler, an e-prescribing module, that enables a business change which results in a benefit. A BDN is particularly useful in e-prescribing which fu...

OBJECTIVE We reported previously the results of a 6-month controlled trial in which the use of a commercially available electronic prescribing system with integrated clinical decision support and evidence-based message capability was associated with significantly lower primary care drug costs. The original study focused on new prescriptions, defined as claims for a medication that the patient h...

Human resources development in society or organization is a necessity to secure progress. Without such development societies or organizations fail to achieve their objectives. Human resources development is a three-stage measure to meet the requirements of each society or organization. These three stages are: a) planning and programming: at this stage qualitative and quantitative needs are dete...

BACKGROUND Drugs can be supplied either directly from the prescribing physician (physician dispensing [PD]) or via a pharmacy. It is unclear whether the dispensing channel is associated with quality problems. Potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) is associated with adverse outcomes in older persons and can be considered a marker for quality deficits in prescribing. We investigated whether ...

OBJECTIVES 1) To review SSRI prescribing patterns for children and adolescents in our hospital and provincial prescription database and 2) To evaluate whether prescribing practices are consistent with expectations, based on published evidence and practice recommendations. METHODS A PubMed online search was conducted to obtain all randomized controlled trials assessing efficacy of SSRI use in ...

Received for publication: Feb. 22, 2008. Revised: May 19, 2008. rEZUMat 1 Department of Anatomy and Embryology, 2 Department of Endodontology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, 3 Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania, 4 Department of Oral Rehab...

OBJECTIVE To understand Australian hospital pharmacists' accounts of antibiotic use, and the potential role of pharmacy in antibiotic optimisation within a tertiary hospital setting. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Qualitative study, utilising semistructured interviews with 19 pharmacists in two hospitals in Queensland, Australia in 2014. Data was analysed using the framework approach and su...

Medication practice encompasses the processes of prescribing, dispensing, preparing, administering, and monitoring the clinical effects of medicines. The mission for hospital pharmacy services is to ensure the safe, effective, and economic uses of medicines. Medication practice measures monitor one or more of these elements. Outcome measures providing quantitative data related to the outcomes o...

One of the most important problems encountered by healthcare system is the increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance. It may result from irrational or inappropriate use of antibiotics. The present study was undertaken to screen rational use of antimicrobials in outpatient department (OPD). Prescriptions from medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology (OBG) and pediatrics OPDs were col...

An evidence based or “rational” approach to prescribing is thought to maximise the benefit and minimise the harm from prescription drugs. Unfortunately, prescribing often does not meet this ideal despite clinicians’ best intentions. We use treatment of chronic tophaceous gout to show how apparently irrational prescribing arises from several interacting “failures” in both clinical practice and d...