Our work aims to estimate the practices of prescription of antibiotics according to the national recommendations in a reference department.
Rather than evidence leading to policy, it is the extension of the networks through which data flow (or do not flow) that seemed to affect the clinical practice of drug prescriptions.
It detailed a practice of selling prescription painkillers during the day, and at night, performing abortions for cash for women who could not get them elsewhere because they were too pregnant.
And the practice of antibiotics prescription is supervised by clinicians during students' clinical internship.
A decision-aid for exercise prescription is currently not available and the results of our qualitative research have informed the development of a questionnaire that clinicians can use to determine participant exercise preferences and inform their practice of exercise prescription.
Besides bearing a strong association with displaying of licenses, knowledge of the name of the Pharmacy and Poisons Act was associated with availability of a working refrigerator and the practice of keeping prescription records.
Case and control women were matched by age, general practice, duration of prescription history in the General Practice Research Database, and index date.
We identified 224 women aged 50 to 79 with incident breast cancer in the base population and 1009 controls matched by age, sex, general practice, duration of prescription drug history in the GPRD, and index date.
- Type of practice (single-handed, duo, group; entered as dummy variables in the analysis), - dispensing practice, - number of prescriptions per listed patient per year (electronic medical records/practice computer): we hypothesized a relationship at GP-level.
Prescribing is a complex process and 4.9% of all prescription items have been found to include errors in prescribing or monitoring in general practice, with 0.2% of prescriptions involving severe errors [ 2].
