Why do others always prescribe a brand-name drug when a less-costly, as-effective generic drug is available?
"The highly-trained sonic surgeons at Hospital Records always prescribe a daily dose of 174 BPM as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Accordingly, the healer's methods (e.g. always prescribing a tea for any illness) may be eliciting a cure through the placebo effect.
Drugs are always prescribed by a doctor using an official prescription and the patient pays 40% of the price.
Identifying patients by Read code alone might underestimate incidence, whereas identifying patients by prescription data might lead to an overestimation because drugs are not always prescribed for a single condition.
Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of osteoporosis, but this exam is not always prescribed, even after a fragility fracture or in the presence of risk factors.
Vasopressors were always prescribed to correct an arterial hypotension and not to increase cerebral perfusion pressure.
However, nearly all those coded with H71 (otitis media), R72 (streptococcal pharyngitis), R75 (acute sinusitis) and R76 (acute tonsillitis) were almost always prescribed antibiotics, with an increasing trend among R72 and R77.
For example, for the practice: "Prescription of a thiazide diuretic to treat hypertension for patients with a history of gout", we assumed that a thiazide diuretic was always prescribed for hypertension.
Have you always prescribed it?
