For the remaining two indicators, the prescribing scores observed with different approaches were nearly identical (table 4).
If maximal dose of remifentanil was insufficient to obtain the prescribed Ramsay score, midazolam infusion was started and adjusted by the bed-side nurse.
We followed the prescribed BSI scoring method: the raw GSI score was calculated by adding the 18 items [ 16].
Of the motifs meeting the prescribed z-score and copy number cutoffs, none was conserved in more than one instance, making the results unreliable.
Fewer than 1% of patients returned with either skin rash or diarrhoea within a month of the index consultation in any group for score 2 (delayed prescribing 0/207, clinical score 2/210, antigen test 1/211), with similar findings for score 1 (delayed prescribing 5/374; clinical score 0/380; antigen test 1/359).
Statistically significant within-group differences for both intervention and control physicians revealed a higher percentage of patients prescribed OADs, OAD score, and increased percentage of patients prescribed insulin at 15 months (p < 0.05).
The secondary outcome measures were the number of scores prescribed and assessed per day of ventilation, the mean COMFORT score, the mean dosages of analgesics and sedatives, the duration of ventilation, the duration of hospitalization, and the number of nosocomial infections.
We compared population level prescribing quality scores and proportions of identified patients using definitions of hypertension or being overweight based on diagnostic codes, clinical measurements or both.
In addition, the changing nature of evidence supporting the PQI focusing on first drug recommendations hampers comparisons of prescribing quality scores over time.
Our study showed that prescribing quality scores do not necessarily change when using different approaches to define the number of patients eligible for treatment.
