FDA approval is not something that comes easily, or happens quickly, and for that reason many startups avoid constructing (or pitching) their apps, services or software as "medical" devices, that prescribe advice or treatment and rather go for utility as a general health or wellness service.
The interview guides thus combined a thematic structure (views of OA, its effects and the following adjustments, description and evaluation of the patients' therapeutic journey, expectations, and fears and beliefs) with chronological sequences to detail the therapeutic journey and the course of consultation: diagnostic routines, information giving, prescribing, advice for lifestyle, and referrals.
In addition, two respondents reported referring to the specialists in hospital for prescribing advice occasionally.
Physicians should refer to the current EGFR-TKI summary of product characteristics (SPC) for prescribing advice [ 18– 20].
These concerned referral criteria and prescribing advice, while, for both doctors and attendees, there was perceived inadequacy of information about preventive options and access to genetic testing.
In case of grade 3 rash, EGFR-TKI therapy should be temporarily interrupted and the treating physician should refer to the current SPC for each EGFR-TKI for prescribing advice [ 18– 24, 26, 27, 27].
A review of patients on long term PPI therapy is time consuming and needs to be facilitated by prescription software systems to generate patient-specific assessments and prescribing advice and support which enable practitioners to adequately monitor dose and duration of treatment.
All interview guidelines were as similar as possible to allow comparisons across groups and followed the normal course of a consultation: diagnostic routines, information giving, prescribing, advices for a lifestyle change and referral.
Adherencea is "the extent to which a patient's behavior coincides with medical or prescribed health advice" [ 1].
Computerized decision support, online prescribing advice and prescribing monitoring can help achieve improved prescribing patterns.
