Massachusetts general allows doctors in the hospital and community to prescribe decision support tools for patients to use at home to decide which treatment is best for them.
Total year of practice was found to be another factor to have an influence on the pathway of prescribing decision.
This way we minimised the effect of factors not related to preference that might have influenced a specific prescribing decision.
Many of the definitions provided above focus on individualisation as a one off prescribing decision, not as part of a process.
We conducted a systematic review to evaluate whether certain features of prescribing decision support systems (RxCDSS) predict successful implementation, change in provider behaviour, and change in patient outcomes.
Most of the features relate to the recording and use of patient data, the medication selection process, prescribing decision support, monitoring drug therapy and clinical reports.
However, as this study aimed to investigate the prescribing decision rather than the treatment, this will not have introduced major misclassification.
27 32 34 Views on the extent to which clinicians should share responsibility for prescribing decisions with patients influenced prescribing decisions.
And they are raising important public policy questions, both about the privacy of doctors' prescribing decisions, and how much commercial pressures influence them.
Logistic regression was used to determine the effects of patient characteristics on physicians' prescribing decisions.
