In 2007, primary care prescriptions for adalimumab and etanercept accounted for 0.4% of all DMARDs [ 25], making their current presence on practice databases vanishingly small.
However, this limitation would mainly affect the study's descriptive results: its analytical results would be affected to a lesser extent, and primary healthcare prescriptions for hypnotics and anxiolytics have been estimated to represent around 87% of the total [ 47], most of which is dispensed by medical prescription [ 48].
The study provides an idea of usual clinical practice by primary care professionals related to the adequacy of cholesterol-lowering drug prescriptions for primary prevention.
Main outcome measures Patients' demographics, risk factors for cardiovascular disease (blood pressure, total cholesterol concentration), and prescriptions for primary preventive drugs were extracted from patients' records.
Should primary physicians postpone their prescriptions for antihypertensive medications, even if their patients' BP levels are higher than 140/90 mm Hg?
The estimated acceleration factors revealed that while secondary school age and the absence duration > 7 days were associated with shorter and longer SIs, respectively, antiviral prescriptions for primary cases made no contribution.
Communication campaigns inciting primary physicians to limit unnecessary prescriptions for LRTI have a moderate impact, which is difficult to maintain over time [12, 13].
Communication campaigns inciting primary physicians to limit unnecessary prescriptions for LRTI have a moderate impact, which is difficult to maintain over time [ 12, 13].
In the Netherlands, migraine is mainly managed in primary care and 95% of prescriptions for triptans are issued in this setting [ 2].
7 Most prescriptions for children in primary healthcare are results of common airway infections.
