The quality of antimicrobial prescribing refers to the optimal way to use antibiotics in regard to their benefits, safety (e.g., resistance generation and toxicity) and cost. Evaluating the quality of antimicrobial prescribing in a way that focuses not only on reducing antimicrobial consumption but also on using them in a more optimal way allows us to understand patterns of use and to identify ...

Traditionally in UK medical schools, teaching of therapeutics and prescribing has been weak. Almost 40% UK medical schools do not teach therapeutics at all. Of the others, the majority do not teach therapeutics per se, but have a “vertical strand” running through the clinical course. The EQUIP survey carried out in 19 UK hospitals on behalf of the GMC (and which, inexplicably, remains unpublish...

Oxygen is a commonly used drug in the clinical setting and like other drugs its use must be considered carefully. This is particularly true for those patients who are at risk of type II respiratory failure in whom the risk of hypercapnia is well established. In recent times, several international bodies have advocated for the prescription of oxygen therapy in an attempt to reduce this risk in v...

in some islamic narrations (ahadith) it is prohibited to postpone the performance of had (prescribed punishment). by analyzing the content of these narrations, this article concludes that they are not specifically related to hodoud in its idiomatic sense, i.e. prescribed punishments as opposed to ta’zir(discretionary punishment). indeed all punishments must be certain and performed in a reasona...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the challenges faced by primary care physicians (PCPs) when prescribing medications for patients with chronic diseases in a teaching hospital in Malaysia. DESIGN/SETTING 3 focus group discussions were conducted between July and August 2012 in a teaching primary care clinic in Malaysia. A topic guide was used to facilitate the discussions which w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate studies of pharmacist-led interventions on potentially inappropriate prescribing among community-dwelling older adults receiving primary care to identify the components of a successful intervention. DATA SOURCES An electronic search of the literature was conducted using the following databases from inception to December 2015: PubMed, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing a...

BACKGROUND Licensing arrangements for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in the UK were broadened in 2005 to allow prescribing to pregnant smokers. However, estimates of NRT prescribing in pregnant females in the UK are currently lacking. AIM To assess trends in NRT prescribing around pregnancy, and variation in prescribing by maternal characteristics. DESIGN AND SETTING Population-based de...

Concern has been raised about inadequate pharmacology teaching in medical schools and the high incidence of prescribing errors by doctors in training. Modifications in pharmacology teaching have been carried out in many countries. The present study was carried out using a semi-structured questionnaire to obtain students' perceptions of their knowledge, attitudes, and skills with regard to diffe...

OBJECTIVES To determine the potential for a source of surplus antibiotics in the community to come from the mismatch between the recommended duration of antibiotic treatment for common indications in primary care and that dictated by default pharmaceutical industry packaging. METHODS Analysis of existing published information of: 1) the most common antibiotics prescribed in primary care in Au...

A direct formulation of linear elasticity cell complexes based on discrete exterior calculus is presented. The primary unknowns are displacements, represented by a primal vector-valued 0 -cochain. Displacement differences and internal forces 1 -cochain dual 2 -cochain, respectively. macroscopic constitutive relation enforced at -cells with the help musical isomorphisms mapping cochains to smoot...