rational prescribing increases the quality of health care and patient outcomes. in this study, the quality of drug prescription in specialist physicians in isfahan province of iran was assessed for evaluating the rational use of drugs and improving the therapeutic outcomes.this retrospective survey was conducted on a total of 7999530 prescriptions from all general and specialist physicians. the...

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006;13:470–475. DOI 10.1197/jamia.M2041.

British Journal of General Practice, May 2014 259 pRevalenCe, natuRe, and Causes of pResCRIbIng eRRoRs In geneRal pRaCtICe Over the past 10 years our team has been involved in a wide range of studies of prescribing in general practice, but one we feel that has really made a difference is the PRACtICe study, which was funded by the General Medical Council.1,2 In this study we took a sample of 15...

Prescription drug spending is growing faster than any other sector of healthcare. However, very little is known about patterns of prescribing and cost of prescribing between general practices. In this study, we examined variation in prescription rates and prescription costs through time for 55 GP surgeries in Northern Ireland Western Health and Social Care Trust. Temporal changes in variability...

o bjectives: cases of antimicrobial resistance are increasing, partly due to inappropriate prescribing practices by dentists. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prescrib- ing practices and knowledge of dentists with regards to antibiotics. moreover, this study aimed to determine whether the prescriptions comply with the recommended guidelines and whether clinical audit can alter t...

Deborah Robertson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish look at any the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

The President: Good evening everybody. This evening we have got a very important lecture and I am glad to see you have all come. Matt Griffiths is a Professor of Nurse Prescribing, or a visiting Professor. More substantially, he is a Senior Nurse with a long background in nursing, particularly in Accident and Emergency medicine, but most importantly from our point of view he is the Advisor to t...

BACKGROUND Whether written feedback on drug prescribing in general practice affects prescribing habits is controversial. Most short-term studies showed no effect. However, the issue has not been tested in long-term studies involving the local general practitioner community. AIMS OF THE STUDY To assess whether prescribing levels in general practice are affected by long-term, unsolicited, syste...