Proponents say the nature prescriptions shift the focus of medicine from illness to wellness, leading to the potential for widespread changes in medical care.
We are in the early years of a medical revolution that will see more diseases treatable by prescription medications, shifting us more toward an ounce of prevention by drug, rather than a pound (or ton) of cure in hospital.
With the battle over prescription drugs shifting to the Senate, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has broken with House Republicans and will propose a government-administered program to offer drug benefits to all Medicare recipients, senators of both parties said today.
But as the business of filling prescriptions also shifts from expensive branded pharmaceuticals to much cheaper generic alternatives, retail pharmacists, particularly large chains like Walgreen's, are having much more success in persuading employers and health plans to allow people the choice of using drugstores for their medications for chronic ailments.
Using Cronbach's α, all subscales had acceptable levels of reliability, which varied from 0.84 for 'Communication About Prescriptions Across Shifts' to 0.44 for 'Teamwork', with the exception of the dimension 'Communication About Mistakes' which had the lowest value of 0.17.
The authors conclude that the overall increase in FQ prescription reflects the shift from the earlier FQs (aimed at treating urinary tract infections) to the newer, more recent "respiratory" quinolones.
Furthermore, the positive response rate of pharmacists with a high qualification (senior pharmacists) was higher than that of those with a low qualification level (junior pharmacists) on the two items: "Staff take adequate breaks during their shifts" and "We have standard procedures for communicating prescription information across shifts" p<0.05 (table 3).
Prescription patterns have shifted in favor of valproic acid over lithium for elderly patients with bipolar disorder, but this shift may not be completely evidence based (Shulman et al. 2003).
Some doctors said yesterday that they worried that insurers could lobby federal regulators to make other types of drugs available without a prescription as well, shifting even more costs to patients.
In these countries the anti-BZD campaigns seem effective for BZDs, but essentially resulted in a shift in prescription patterns towards Z-drugs.
