While these are intermediate outcomes, where studies have demonstrated the use of a particular drug leads to improvements in important patient outcomes, changes in prescribing consistent with this evidence are likely to be a reasonable surrogate for patient outcomes.
The finding that combination therapy is not as common for patients prescribed stimulants relative to BUP and A2A, despite that these medications were the class most often prescribed is consistent with the use of these indicated drugs as "first line" agents for adult ADHD [ 7].
Participants who were prescribed HAART, consistent with the Public Health Service Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents [ 34], were included in the analysis.
Some of their perspectives are listed in Table 2.> Some interviewees were surprised at where their hospice sat within the range of patients prescribed corticosteroids but were agreeably surprised at its closeness, as this suggested their prescribing was consistent with the 'norm'norm
Significant variables of age, gender and prescribed anticoagulants are consistent with the findings of Chisholm et al. (Chisholm and Harruff 2010), who analyzed ground level falls that resulted in mortality in older adults (Chisholm and Harruff 2010).
Patients were prescribed antiretroviral therapy consistent with therapeutic guidelines which, beginning in 1996 for all patients, recommended triple combination therapy.
Patients were considered to be receiving inadequate TB treatment if the anti-TB regimen prescribed was not consistent with international recommendations or was inadequate because of documented MTB drug resistance.
Our findings support earlier study findings that an intensive implementation strategy is needed for physicians to make their prescribing practices consistent with guideline recommendations.
This observed prescribing patterns were consistent with findings from another study [ 8] which found an increase in the prescribing of ACEIs, ARBs, and CCBs; while a reduction in prescribing of diuretics and BBs in patients with primary hypertension.
Co-prescribing was common; 77% of those with non-bipolar affective disorders received an antidepressant, prescribing that is consistent with evidence-based treatment guidelines that may reflect difficulty managing the symptoms of affective disorders with lithium monotherapy.
