Sentence examples for lower prescribing from inspiring English sources

This assumption is supported by studies from other countries where the merger of medicine prescribing and dispensing 14 29 or exposure to information from pharmaceutical companies 30 affected prescription choices, prompting physicians to not necessarily act in the best interest of patients, resulting in higher prescribing frequency, higher costs and lower prescribing quality.

Prescribing for sinusitis was generally high, even at lower prescribing practices.

Settings with electronic prescribing systems are likely to show lower prescribing error rates than those seen in our study.

Other studies have reported lower prescribing rates in an elderly population and that prescribing rates are related to the prevalence of diabetes and hypertension [ 19, 22].

Other authors have reported lower prescribing rates of statins and we have taken this into account in the sensitivity analysis [ 34].

The lower prescribing rates of statins and antiplatelet agents in the CVD hospital group may reflect the GP being unaware of these patients' clinical need resulting in undertreatment; this is supported by the higher prescribing rates in the paired group.

Failure statistics for unconfined loading exhibit a smaller Weibull modulus (corresponding to greater scatter in peak failure strength) in AlON than in SiC, likely a result of lower prescribed cohesive fracture strength and greater elastic anisotropy in the former.

Compared with individuals in the bottom quartile for lipid-lowering prescribing, those in the top quartile were more likely to have a history of ischaemic heart disease.

Our primary hypothesis is that practices randomized to receive behavioral economic interventions will have lower antibiotic prescribing rates for non-antibiotic appropriate ARIs compared to control practices.

27 The levels of achievement that are practically attainable also differ between the activity types, with achievement rates generally lower for prescribing compared with measurement activities.

It has been shown that delivered dialysis dose is generally lower than prescribed, ranging from 68 to 89% of prescribed [ 7, 8, 26, 27].