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"The widely publicized chilling effect of physician prosecution on physicians concerned with legal scrutiny over prescribing opioids appears disproportionate to the relatively few cases," the study reported.
It is difficult to keep control over prescribing behaviour in general practices.
Personal, family or friends' experiences mould patient/parent expectations [ 29] and pressure to fulfil these expectations drives over prescribing.
Most UK hospital trusts are reported [ 1] to think that computerisation will reduce medication errors by increasing control over prescribing.
What steps could clinicians at the clinic level take to reduce the over prescribing of antibiotics?
GPs taking over prescribing responsibility may have less information and knowledge about psychosocial interventions than psychiatrists or paediatricians.
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Current compensation is based upon sales volume and creates perverse incentives for over-prescribing.
Such incentives produced negative outcomes in terms of over- prescribing and over-treating when health workers were solely rewarded by cost-recovery and revenue generation [ 31, 33].
Over-prescribing isn't limited to hospitals.
Due to this limitation, we focus our interpretation and discussion only on outstanding findings, e.g., the use of BZDs for physical illnesses, the acceptance of BZD over-prescribing.
Over-prescribing of benzodiazepines appears common in many countries, a better understanding of prescribing practices and attitudes may help develop strategies to reduce prescribing.
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