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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Prescribing guidelines"”.
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Antibiotic use and the effect of prescribing guidelines in care of the elderly.
… effect and acceptability of the introduction of prescribing guidelines on antibiotic prescribing in elderly, hospitalised patients. Three audits of antibiotic use were carried out, one before (n=324) and two after (n=302 & 263) the introduction of the antibiotic treatment guidelines. Three types …
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Acute pain management in methadone maintenance treatment / by Mark Doverty.
… that will eventually help in the formulation of prescribing guidelines, improved policies, and help direct optimal acute pain management for methadone maintenance patients.
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A Review of Psychotropic drug prescription for patients with Intellectual disability at Alexandra Hospital (a specialist Intellectual Disability psychiatric hospital) outpatient clinic
… challenge. Aim: The study aimed to assess the prescribing patterns of psychotropic medication to outpatients with intellectual disability at a psychiatric hospital. Setting: Alexandra hospital outpatient clinic, Cape Town. Methods: This was a retrospective folder and prescription chart review. …
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Optimizing Opioid Prescription for Outpatient Surgery
INTRODUCTION: Opioid overprescribing by surgeons has contributed to the current opioid epidemic. This has occurred both from the transition of patients to chronic opioid use after initial use for acute pain only and from diversion of unused opioids from prescriptions intended for acute surgical …
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Influences of first-line oral monotherapy on outcomes in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in association with Connective Tissue Disease.
… randomised controlled trials is limited, but guidelines exist. Aim To measure the impact of first-line monotherapy with bosentan or sildenafil and the introduction of prescribing guidelines on outcomes in PAH-CTD. Methods Following a retrospective analysis of consecutive, incident, …
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The Social Organization of Opioid Use for Chronic Pain
… practices. These changes in physicians’ work of prescribing opioids have had significant impacts on the lives of people with chronic pain. To explicate these abrupt changes in patients’ access to opioids, I conducted interviews with people with chronic pain and with health care practitioners, as …
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A mixed methods exploration of antibiotic prescribing and stewardship
Unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics for viral respiratory tract infections is common and contributes to emerging antibiotic resistance and patient morbidity and mortality. Interventions aimed at promoting judicious use of antibiotics, such as prescribing guidelines, are often ineffective. …
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Control of antibiotic prescribing in UK NHS hosptials. Available in 2 volumes.
… an evaluation of practices to control antibiotic prescribing in UK NHS hospitals. Within the past ten years there has been increasing international concern about escalating antibiotic resistance, and the UK has issued several policy documents for pmdent antibiotic prescribing. Chief Pharmacists in …
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The Association of Prescription Opioid Exposure and Patient Factors with Prolonged Postoperative Opioid Use in Opioid Naive Patients
… However, it is unclear which patient factors and prescribing practices are associated with prolonged use after surgery among opioid naïve patients.</p> <p><strong>Objectives</strong></p> <p>To identify factors associated with prolonged postoperative opioid use (refills 90-180 days after surgery) …
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Carbapenem and piperacillin-tazobactam prescribing in a hospital setting in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia : a mixed methodology study
… the determinants of broad-spectrumantimicrobial prescribing can assist in developing strategies and policies to improvethe local prescribing practice for these agents.Aim: To evaluate the practices of broad-spectrum antimicrobial prescribing toprovide potentially effective and feasible …
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Investigating practice variation in a changing primary care. A multilevel perspective on The Skaraborg Primary Care Database
… in medical care are the introduction of medical guidelines and economical incentives that rewards the desired behaviour. Practice variation in primary care can be seen on different hierarchically organised levels (e.g. patient, physician, health care center (HCC)) and Multilevel Regression …
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Antibiotic prescribing practice and adherence to IMCI guidelines among CNPs in children younger than 5 years withrespiratory tract infections at Crossroads clinic, Cape Town,South Africa: retrospective audit
… been several published studies on antibiotic prescribing practice among Health Care Workers (HCWs) in PHC in low-resource setting. However, no published study has been reported on antibiotic prescribing practice among clinical nurse practitioners (CNPs) in PHC low-resource setting in Cape …