The aim was to assess whether GPs believed that this intervention programme could affect their practices in the matter of prescribing.
There was a large variation between practices in the percentage of statin prescribing to high-risk patients, ranging in 2007 onwards from 8.2% to 61.5% (figure 1).
In addition, a question was also posed to understand their prescribing practices in the treatment of MDR TB ("Please write a prescription for a previously untreated adult case of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis resistant to isoniazid and rifampicin and weighing 50 kg").
16 In the light of the above results, we hope to be able to implement better health care planning and improve prescribing practices in the treatment of patients with asthma in Italy.
The increase in the prescribing practices of lipid lowering drugs has been described in several studies.
There was a large variation between general practices in the percentage of high-risk patients prescribed a statin in 2007 onwards, ranging from 8.2%to61.5%5%.
These changes may, for example, be occurring through increased societal and patient awareness of appropriate care, enhanced management of incident cases in hospital, or improved organisation of general practices in the management of chronic disease, particularly in prescribing.
The objectives were to: (i) describe the patient characteristics associated with acute exacerbations amongst a representative COPD population, (ii) explore the relationship between COPD severity and outcomes amongst patients with exacerbations, and (iii) quantify variability by practice in prescribing of antibiotics for exacerbations.
The aims were to: (i) describe patient characteristics associated with acute exacerbations amongst a representative COPD population, (ii) explore the relationship between COPD severity and outcomes amongst patients with exacerbations, and (iii) quantify variability by general practice in prescribing of antibiotics for COPD exacerbations.
In a review (44) of prescribing practices in the U.K., appropriate use of the drug was defined on the basis of creatinine level ≤1.7 mg/dL.
