BACKGROUND Health care policy-makers look for prescribing indicators at the population level to evaluate the performance of prescribers, improve quality and control drug costs. The aim of this research was to; (i) estimate the level of variation in potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) across prescribers in the national Irish older population using the STOPP criteria; (ii) estimate how re...

Background
 Clinical pharmacology training is a prerequisite for all medical graduates. Prescription writing errors are not infrequent at primary health care level leading to threat patient safety. Prescribers lacks uniform structured and assessment which one of the major factors this situation across country. In lots institutions despite proper curriculum, learners lack interest because s...

OBJECTIVE To better understand barriers associated with the adoption and use of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), a practice recently established by US Drug Enforcement Administration regulation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prescribers of controlled substances affiliated with a regional health system were surveyed regarding current electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) activi...

BACKGROUND Patients with multiple chronic conditions often have multiple prescribers, which has been associated with greater health care utilization and medication nonadherence in claims-based analyses. This qualitative study was conducted to understand the reasons why patients have increasing numbers of prescribers of medications and to understand patient perspectives on advantages and disadva...

OBJECTIVES To identify priority medicines policy issues for New Zealand. SETTING Stakeholders from a broad range of healthcare and policy institutions including primary, secondary and tertiary care. PARTICIPANTS Exploratory, semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 stakeholders throughout New Zealand. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES The interviews were digitally recorded, t...

BACKGROUND Supplementary prescribing (SP) is a drug therapy management model implemented in the United Kingdom since 2003. It is a voluntary partnership between an independent prescriber; a supplementary prescriber, for example, nurse or pharmacist; and the patient, to implement an agreed patient-specific clinical management plan (CMP). OBJECTIVE To investigate pharmacist prescribers' views a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the experiences of e-prescribing users and nonusers regarding prescription safety and workload and to assess the use of information from two e-prescribing standards (for medication history and formulary and benefit information), as they are implemented. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of physicians who either had installed or were awaiting installation of one of two commercia...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether there have been recent changes in Australian antiretroviral treatment (ART) prescribers' perceptions and practices relating to early ART initiation, which was defined as commencing ART when a patient's CD4+ T-cell count approaches 500 cells/mm3 or immediately after a patient is diagnosed with HIV. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Self-completed, anonymous, cross-s...