American society goes through cycles of use, abuse and ultimately renewed control of prescription stimulants (read Nick Rasmussen's fascinating history of prescription amphetamines, On Speed, The Many Lives of Amphetamine).
Health policy on the quality control of prescription practice, professional development for rural doctors, and health education to rural residents could be essential to enhance prescription practice in the rural THCs and improve the health conditions of rural residents in Sichuan Province.
A hospital in India introduced control measures including disinfection of surfaces, rapid detection of C. difficile by toxin assays, isolation of patients, controls on prescription of antibiotics and education of staff members.
The Government's Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Keith Ridge, said although the control mechanism for prescribing antibiotics had been strengthened in hospitals, there would need to be tighter and more thoughtful control of antibiotic prescriptions in GPs' surgeries.
Organizational problems, such as suboptimal control of repeat prescriptions or inadequate routines for cleaning equipment, contribute to patient safety incidents.
Adherence to shared protocols or local guidelines, on the basis of local epidemiology of resistance and control of antibiotic prescriptions, may reverse the trend of AMR (especially in MRSA), whereas it appears more difficult for Gram-negative pathogens [ 37- 40].
It is also a tool aimed at monitoring and controlling appropriateness of prescriptions and pharmaceutical expenditure).
Thus, we speculate that the irrational prescription practice may also be related to the lack of quality control on prescription practice in certain THCs.
Control of selective prescription of hypnotics for patients in poor health did not explain the observed excess mortality.
In developing countries, many national TB control programs have low case detection rates and once a case is detected, cure may also be difficult because of poor case holding, high default rates and insufficient control of drug prescription [ 3].
