BACKGROUND A sound knowledge of pathophysiology of a disease and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) of a drug is required for safe and rational prescribing. The aim of this study was therefore to assess how adequately the undergraduate CPT teaching had prepared interns in Nigeria for safe and rational prescribing and retrospectively, to know how they wanted the undergraduate curriculu...

BACKGROUND Providers wish to help patients with prescription costs but often lack drug cost information. We examined whether giving providers formulary and drug cost information was associated with changes in their diabetes patients' drug costs and use. We conducted a longitudinal non-randomized evaluation of the web-based Prescribing Guide ( www.PrescribingGuide.com ), a free resource availabl...

INTRODUCTION Carbamazepine is an anticonvulsant drug and is also used as a treatment for patients with manic-depressive illness, post-herpetic neuralgia or phantom limb pain. The drug itself has many drug interactions. Simethicone is an antifoaming agent and is reported to be an inert material with no known drug interaction with carbamazepine. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a patient ...

BACKGROUND: We conducted a prospective comparative study to evaluate the potential benefit of computer-assisted prescribing (CAP). We compared the accuracy, completeness and time use of CAP with that of conventional handwritten prescribing at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. RESULTS: Twenty-five clinicians and 2409 drug entries were evaluated for accurac...

Objective: Published literature on the characteristics of prescribing medication to the Indian elderly is limited. This study aims to evaluate the prescription pattern among Indian elderly patients using WHO prescribing indicators. Methods: The prescriptions of 4005 outpatients aged sixty and above were evaluated prospectively using WHO prescribing indicators. Results: The average age of patien...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a challenging problem for medicine to overcome. The renal disorder frequently misdiagnosed; nevertheless, attempts are being made enhance the identification and treatment of patients with this comorbidity. objective present study was assess prescribing patterns drug/drug interactions among suffering from CKD transplantation. About 300 were recruited after followi...

OBJECTIVE We conducted a study to assess the educational needs and interests of medication prescribers and organizational needs regarding heavily marketed drugs. STUDY DESIGN We used an Internet and paper-based educational needs assessment survey to gather data. METHODS Approximately 1000 Denver-area Kaiser Permanente Colorado (KPCO) physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants...

BACKGROUND Prescription drug misuse and abuse has reached epidemic levels in the U.S., and stands as a leading cause of death. As the primary gatekeepers to the medications contributing to this epidemic, it is critical to understand the views of licensed health care professionals. OBJECTIVE In this study, we examine health care professionals' concern regarding prescription drug abuse in their...

BACKGROUND General practitioner (GP) prescribing accounts for about 10% of NHS expenditure. GPs at the top of the range have annual prescribing costs that are almost twice as much as those at the bottom of the range. This variation cannot be accounted for purely in terms of differences in underlying need for health care. OBJECTIVES To describe the relationship between GPs' prescribing costs a...