AIM To determine the adequacy of initial nurse independent prescribing education and identify continuing professional development and clinical governance strategies in place for non-medical prescribing. BACKGROUND In 2006, new legislation in England enabled nurses with an independent prescribing qualification to prescribe, within their competence. In 2006, non-medical prescribing policies rel...

UNLABELLED The use of generic drugs has increased significantly in recent years. Since generic drugs are available at a lower cost, they provide an opportunity for savings in drug expenditure. Thus, use of generic drugs is encouraged especially in developing countries. There are only a few studies concerning the perceptions and attitudes of the healthcare providers and patients towards generic ...

Objectives Despite widespread availability of evidence-based guidelines to inform rational use medicines, considerable unwarranted variation exists in prescribing. A greater understanding key determinants contemporary prescribing UK general practice could strategies promote This study explored (1) current influences on and (2) the possibility that practice-based pharmacists (PBPs) may contribut...

OBJECTIVES Recent studies report that adolescents misuse and divert ADHD stimulants. This study evaluates the extent to which physicians educate adolescents with ADHD about stimulant misuse and diversion (M/D). METHODS Child/adolescent psychiatrists (CAP), child neurologists (CN), and developmental-behavioral pediatricians (DBP) in the US completed a questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were...

AIM This study sought to elicit the views of psychiatric nurses in the United States on various aspects of nurse prescribing, with the aim of informing UK nurses about future problems and possible solutions. METHOD A survey design with an opportunistic sample of psychiatric nurse clinical specialists was used. The questionnaire consisted of 14 items seeking to elicit information on demographi...

Use of multiple prescribers and pharmacies is a means by which some individuals misuse opioids. Community characteristics may be important determinants of the likelihood of this phenomenon independent of individual-level factors. This was a retrospective cohort study with individual-level data derived from California's statewide prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) and county-level socio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There has been an increasing focus on the relationship between pediatric prescribers and the biomedical industry. There is a lack of research, however, on the biomedical industry's relationship with the professional medical associations (PMAs) of pediatric prescribers. We developed a systematic method to assess this relationship by evaluating PMA transparency and compl...

This paper has two aims: 1) to describe the tele-expertise system implemented in the Montpellier University Hospital (France) in order to optimize antimicrobial use 2) to analyze the prescribers' adherence to this system. For the second purpose, an observational prospective study was conducted for 12 months. Data were collected from counselling advices, which were notified in the electronic med...

The training of doctors in therapeutics has created interesting discussions internationally. A survey of senior hospital pharmacists currently practising throughout West Malaysia was embarked on during a recent postgraduate seminar. About sixty per cent said prescribing errors were common amongst doctors. Sixteen per cent of the prescribing errors were potentially serious. Most of the time erro...

It's my job to figure out what a physician's price is. For some it is dinner at the finest restaurants, for others it is enough convincing data to let them prescribe confidently and for others it is my attention and friendship...but at the most basic level, everything is for sale and everything is an exchange. Shahram Ahari The statement above is only a quotation and I am not debating if it is ...