Unfortunately, explicit prescribing criteria may force the prescriber to ignore these considerations by prescribing at the bedside according to inflexible, rigid guidelines.
When the goal is cutting supply, keeping docs scared of prescribing at all is the best way to drive it down fast.
31 There are relatively few studies looking at the appropriateness of prescribing at the population level.
Variability of prescribing at the GP level was evaluated graphically and by using multilevel models.
However, another study found good signs of rational drug prescribing at Jimma Hospital, south west Ethiopia [ 8].
Descriptive statistics were used to characterise the distribution of demographic factors, controller medication prescribing at baseline, SABA prescriptions, comorbidities, and resource use.
To partition the variation in prescribing at practice and patient levels we used an R measure derived from a two level logistic regression with random intercepts.
These data emphasize the relevance of country specific factors for prescribing at a national level, one of which may be the implementation of guideline recommendations.
When lumiracoxib was introduced (2006) there was uptake of prescribing at a faster rate than meloxicam in 2002, its first year of use.
When responding to the section of questionnaire examining use of specific medications the caution exhibited in prescribing at the top end of the ladder was also in evidence but a grading of the safety profile of individual medications became apparent.
