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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Prescribing practices"”.
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Trends in Chlamydia trachomatis Treatment Prescribing Practices in King County, Washington, 2010 - 2018
… Five of the eight facility type groups were prescribing azithromycin to more than 95% of their cases in 2018. Cases who were younger or cases of color were more likely to receive azithromycin (versus doxycycline) compared to older and white cases respectively. These findings suggest that a …
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Assessment of prescribing practices in community pharmacies in Windhoek, Namibia: a focus on antibiotics
… vulnerable to misuse of medicines. Medicine use practices in public health settings often vary from those in private health settings, and in Namibia, whilst there is reasonable data on medicine use in public facilities, very little is available on the same in private facilities. Aim This study …
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Analgesic Use in U.S. Emergency Departments for Patients Reporting Moderate to Severe Pain: Diagnosis and Select Patient Characteristics Influencing Narcotic Analgesic Prescribing Practices
… encounter characteristics and narcotic analgesic prescribing practices in order to determine what patient characteristics, if any, influence the decision to prescribe narcotics.Methods: Cross sectional data on patients presenting to U.S. emergency departments from the 2003 and 2004 National …
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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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A descriptive study of vancomycin usage at Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town
… use of vancomycin, but paediatric vancomycin prescribing practices have not been evaluated in South Africa. Objectives: To document the use, prescribing practices and monitoring of intravenous vancomycin and the spectrum of bacteria isolated on microbiological culture in children treated with …
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The Social Organization of Opioid Use for Chronic Pain
… with chronic pain who use opioids from their 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 …
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Evaluating and Changing Postoperative Opioid Prescribing After Routine Pediatric Surgery
… there is greater focus on physician narcotic prescribing practices as a potential contributing factor to increasing opioid misuse. In an effort to evaluate this potential among pediatric surgeons we designed a two phased study including baseline evaluation and intervention. Our objectives were …
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Pain medication management : a quality improvement DNP project
… cause analysis. Findings identified inconsistent prescribing practices and absence of standardized pain medication order sets, contributing to variability in care and increased risk for pain-related MAEs. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to reduce pain MAEs in …
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An exploration of knowledge, attitudes and practices of primary health care providers providing contraceptive and family planning services in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative study
… services. Furthermore, contraceptive prescribing practices were also influenced by medical eligibility criteria and women's preferred bleeding patterns. However, contraceptive prescribing practices were also influenced by providers' attitudes towards younger and older women. Challenges …
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A Two-Pronged Approach to Stemming the Opioid Epidemic: Preclinical Strategies for Substance Use Disorder Medications Development and Liquid Biopsy Detection of Inflammatory Pain
… opioid misuse is compounded by excessive prescribing of opioid analgesics. Despite regulatory efforts to mitigate poor prescribing practices, more than 17% of Americans possessed at least one opioid prescription in 2017 with the average number of total opioid prescriptions reaching 3.4 per …
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Psychotropic Medications and Children: Perceptions of Mental Health Professionals
… discussed factors that they believe influence prescribing practices including: professional role changes, issues of access, limited evidence, cost, and institutional pressures to practice within a biomedical model of care. This thesis suggests that the supremacy of biomedicine has changed the …
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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 …
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Development of Non-covalent Chemical Probes for μ, δ and κ Opioid Receptors
… and abuse, highlight the need for safer opioid prescribing practices. The development of new chemical probes will assist in further understanding opioid-receptor interactions and will serve to advance this field of research. As a part of a collaborative Ontario Tech University-Purdue Pharma …
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Regional accreditation and learning outcomes assessment: mapping the territory
… how regional accreditation policies and practices leverage student learning outcomes efforts on US college campuses. To that end, the standards of each of the regional accreditation agencies were carefully reviewed and representatives from the regional accreditation agencies (with the …
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Efetividade de intervenções farmacêuticas na omissão de prescrição e desprescrição de medicamentos em pacientes hospitalizados: estudo INFAR
… as well as polypharmacy and promote the deprescribing of potentially inappropriate medications in hospitalised older patients diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases. Methods: This before‐and‐after study was conducted among patients aged ≥ 60 years (n = 319) at a cardiovascular hospital in …
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Awareness And Utilization Of The Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System By Physician Assistants
… and how providers may or may not alter their prescribing plans based on the results. Laws surrounding prescribing practices and use of the Ohio Automated Rx Reporting System (OARRS) are constantly updated. Existing literature was reviewed regarding state PDMPs, OARRS, Ohio Revised Code, …
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Exploring key risks in the medical admissions process
… of both VTE risk assessment and appropriate prescribing of prophylaxis were seen, however inappropriate prescribing also rose. Observations showed poor medication history taking and prescribing practices, during the study the proportion of items with a prescribing error increased, however the …
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Advancing clinical pharmacy practice
… and improving standards and quality of care; prescribing, prescribing practices and prescribing safety; innovative practice within legal and ethical frameworks; the impact and outcomes of clinical pharmacy. A unifying premise is my aim of advancing clinical pharmacy practice. The concept of …
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Implementing a standardized EHR-integrated controlled substance agreement in outpatient psychiatry
… and sedative-hypnotics. In most psychiatric practices, communication between patients and providers about prescribing expectations and refill policies remained inconsistent and undocumented. This lack of documentation compromised legality and, more importantly, safety. Purpose: The role of …
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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
… is to explore the impact of the nurse/midwife 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 …
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