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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Prescriber"”.
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A Study of Prescriber Mix and Medication Management
… management patterns of two different primary prescriber structures, 1) sole physician and 2) nurse practitioner-physician collaboration, in the geriatric long term care setting. The variables explored included, total medication number, number of contraindicated medications, number of …
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Prescriber use of Medicines Information Service advice in their decision-making and patient care: an exploratory qualitative study
… approach, this study tried to understand how prescribers use MI advice in decision-making and patient care. Prescribers (general practitioners and dentists) across England who contacted MI Services with a medicine-related question, were interviewed by telephone. To expand on findings from …
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THE EFFECT OF THE COMMONGROUND SOFTWARE AND THE DECISION SUPPORT CENTER ON PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT-CENTERED COMMUNICATION
… shared decision-making between the consumer and prescriber. A pre-test/post-test design randomly assigned consumers to an experimental group for four months or a control group. Several measures of patient-centered communication were used to evaluate the medication consultation transcripts …
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The management of antipsychotic-induced weight gain
… undertaken addressing – from the perspective of prescribers – how interventions designed to improve SDM application within antipsychotic prescribing decision work and elicit the impact of structural and contextual factors on their successful implementation within real-world settings. Finally, a …
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Rationalisation of antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract infection in primary health care.
… of this research was to investigate patient and prescriber factors that contribute to consulting and prescribing behaviour in the area of suspected upper respiratory tract infection (URTI). Stage 1 Qualitative interviews identified patient and prescriber factors that are important in the decision …
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An Examination of the Nurse/Midwife Prescribing Programme in Ireland: Confidence, Accuracy, Seeking Advice and working within the Scope of Practice
… prescribing programme on nurse/midwife prescribers and measuring the confidence, accuracy, advice seeking behaviour and scope of practice of the participants. A concurrent mixed method approach was used. Data were gathered from 28 qualified nurses and midwives in Ireland, 14 of whom were …
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Improving Medication Safety by Reducing Miscellaneous Orders Placed via CPOE
… when entered incorrectly in the computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) system. After identification of this high-risk workaround, it was discovered that the nursing specific, free-text, orders were being used for medications and inadvertently bypassing clinical decision support systems, …
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MALE PATIENT EXPERIENCE RECEIVING PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV THROUGH PRIMARY CARE
… in and reduced confidence of the intervention prescriber. Participants also described additional barriers to PrEP, including PCP resistance to prescribing, costly co-pays, and variable insurance coverage. Once consistent access was afforded, participants described mostly overwhelming positive …
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Using Pharmacist-Led Tele-Consultation to Review Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
… and medication optimisation - communicated to prescriber via postal mail. After 6-months, all participants were reassessed in-person. Results: Forty-eight patients from 16 GP practices were recruited over 4-months; 41 (85%) completed the study. At follow-up, 29% of participants in the TC group …
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Strategies to prevent potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse drug reactions in older patients
… Tension between experience and guidelines; (iv) Prescriber fear. Similar themes also emerged from the qualitative study. In the RCT, the online educational module resulted in a highly significant 22% difference in test scores between intervention and control groups. The studies exploring the …
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Avaliação do uso de antimicrobianos a partir de prescrições médicas em unidades de saúde da família.
… (3.5%). There was no identification of the prescriber in prescribing (14.6%), incomplete dosage (23.28%), inappropriate dispensation (100%), drug interactions (24.2%), lack of information such as the route of administration (19%), the pharmaceutical form (19%) and the concentration of the …
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A Descriptive Study of the Advanced Practice Role of Nurse Practitioners in South Dakota
… Mahoney (1992) stated that "the NPs role as a prescriber is central to the evolution of clinical practice (p. 44).<br> This study described the demographic characteristics and practice patterns of nurse practitioners in South Dakota. The study also explored barriers to prescriptive practice as …
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Practice Patterns and Health Outcomes of Adjuvant Oxaliplatin Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer
… ≤50% of a 6-month course of therapy. Between-prescriber variation strongly influenced treatment duration in the post-IDEA period (median odds ratio 2.10 [95% CI 1.73-3.18] for short-duration treatment). Treatment with 50% of a 6-month course of therapy was associated with a HR of 1.13 (95% CI …
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MANAGING DRUG USE IN THE ELDERLY. General practitioners’ adherence to guidelines and patients’ conceptions of medication
… when they received enough information from the prescriber or when they knew how to find out sufficient information by themselves. They felt insecure if they were anxious, if the availability of medical care was poor or if they did not receive enough information. Reduced renal function was common …
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Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance among private sector patients and prescribers in South Africa
… of appropriate antibiotic use and ABR, among prescribers and patients in private health care in South Africa. The secondary objective of the study is to explore associations between knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of prescribers and patients regarding antibiotic use and resistance. This …
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Data Mining and Causal Analyses: A Healthcare Operations Approach to Understanding the Patient Journey
… a clinician other than the original opioid prescriber for the follow-up appointment) on long-term opioid use. A series of controlled logistic regressions, instrumental variable analyses, and propensity score matching (with a bias minimization method) establish a significant causal effect in …
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Optimizing Opioid Prescription for Outpatient Surgery
… database, providing educational opportunities to prescribers, and implementing process change in EPIC workflow. Our multidisciplinary team analyzed surgery billing information and EPIC pharmacy data for prescriber type, strength, and average number of pills/dosage of each opioid prescription. …
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How do New Zealand nurses who work in the area of oncology educate and provide follow-up support to patients who are prescribed oral capecitabine and what are nurses’ perceptions of this process?
… to discuss the appropriateness of this with the prescriber. Recommendations for future research include exploring different methods of education and exploring the feasibility of providing home-based nursing care, especially for elderly patients.
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The Epidemiology and Patient Perspectives of Glucocorticoid Use in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Inflammatory Diseases
… are used in RA and the influence of patient and prescriber factors in two large databases in the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia. In Chapter 2, primary care data from clinical practice research datalink (CPRD) demonstrated that half of patients with incident RA received GCs in primary care, …
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Community Pharmacists and Substance Use Disorders: Attitudes, Knowledge and Practices
… of the opioid epidemic, overprescribing and prescriber accountability were some of the most frequently occurring categories in the protocols.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study was a comprehensive survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices of community pharmacists in SUD. Their …
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