Looking into the fact that the majority of prescription-related errors in hospital environment are made by junior doctors [ 15, 24], there is a need to educate the interns and develop an intervention that will improve their prescription qualities.
For example, HCCs with a very low adherence to guidelines at the start of the intervention may be especially prone to participate in order to improve their prescription patterns.
For example, there is the prescribing incentive scheme (IPS), a system in which doctors are offered 30% of the saved drug cost if they voluntarily improve their prescription behavior and save drug costs.
United said its analysis of employers who have voluntarily adopted such a program shows that consumers are more likely to fill their prescriptions, which can improve their health.
Surveys of college students have found that from 4percentto16percentcent say they have used stimulants or other prescription drugs to improve their academic performance — usually getting the pills from other students.
Data sharing among prescriptions monitoring programs can improve their effectiveness and drug utilization studies should take account of cash purchases.
According to Berwick's theory, the intervention's effects might come from three ways: (1) patient's rewarding the better-prescribing doctors after seeing the medicine use information; (2) pressure from the director of each hospital to improve their ranking; (3) doctors' effort to improve prescription behaviors to gain more patients or better reputation.
Both thinkers provided their prescriptions to improve the condition of their societies, and analyzing these prescriptions helps us understand the differences in these worldviews.
Previous interventions have had limited success in improving drug prescriptions and adherence, and therefore mixed effects in improving patient health.
Most recently, electronic tools were examined to promote knowledge translation at physician and patient level, but further studies are needed to clarify the impact of these approaches [ 31, 32] in particular regarding their impact on improving guideline-adherent prescription behaviour.
