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I believe that professionals are perfectly able to improve the safety of prescribing themselves".
We compared the time to prescribing between GPs that initiate therapy before one of their patients received the drug from a medical specialist and GPs that waited for specialist to prescribe first before prescribing themselves.
Therefore, the larger differences observed between previous studies may not reflect differences in the methods of delayed prescribing themselves.
Another option is for the organisation to construct a system where the prescribing physicians can self-monitor their prescribing habits, bench-mark themselves relative to their chosen peers, and analyse their prescribing themselves.
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THE impure salts that turned Dr. Henry Jekyll into Mr. Edward Hyde did not prescribe themselves.
The majority (93.6 %) of respondents submitted less than six IMT funding applications for provincial drug coverage yearly, and 5.5 % reported prescribing IMT themselves, rather than referring to other specialists.
There are several layers of middlemen in drug purchasing -- sales reps, pharmacists, prescribing doctors themselves -- and neither patients nor doctors pay the full cost of a prescription, so the actual end consumers never weigh the financial costs against the personal benefits, as they would with any other good or service.
The majority of the HCPs supported this view, as they believed that they are capable of improving prescribing quality themselves by conducting internal audits and peer-review without external interference.
To exclude occasional prescribers (physicians without a practice but who can prescribe for themselves and relatives), prescribers with less than 200 prescriptions in 2008 were not included in the sample (100 prescriptions per semester is the lower limit used by the TPP to include a prescriber in the feedback on low-cost drugs).
Our results showed that only 5.5%% (CI = 0.02 0.11) of physicians would prescribe IMT themselves and 93.6 % (CI = 0.88 0.97) make less than six IMT applications for provincial and private provider drug coverage per year.
Respondents with a recent RTI were also more likely to have contacted their GP if they had been prescribed Tamiflu© themselves (29% if they had previously been prescribed Tamiflu© vs 18% if they had not, p=0.01) (figure 2B).
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