Sentence examples for risk prescribing from inspiring English sources

Rush the process, and they risk prescribing ineffective antibiotics, exposing the patient to unnecessary side effects, and spreading antibiotic resistance.

The implication is that different types of intervention might be required to deal with the two types of high risk prescribing.

Doctors using broader definitions of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, risk prescribing "unnecessary and possibly harmful treatment" to their patients, experts have warned.

Primary care high-risk prescribing causes significant harm, but it is unclear if it is largely driven by individuals (a 'bad apple' problem) or by practices having higher or lower risk prescribing cultures (a 'spoiled barrel' problem).

9 In England, a pharmacist led intervention was found to reduce the frequency of indicators in general practice (PINCER trial), 10 while in Scotland, validated measures of high risk prescribing were the outcome measures in a trial of an intervention to reduce high risk prescribing of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and antiplatelet agents in general practice.

14 If these indicators are to be used by GPs as an audit tool there needs to be an agreement about what constitutes a clinically acceptable prevalence of high risk prescribing and whether there are potential exceptions.

(B) To explore the value of reviewing identified high-risk prescribing to clinicians.

High-risk prescribing in primary care is common and causes considerable harm.

High-risk prescribing in primary care is common and varies considerably between practices, and improving the safety of primary care prescribing is important.

(A) To measure the extent to which different candidate outcome measures identified high-risk prescribing that is potentially changeable by the data-driven quality improvement in primary care (DQIP) intervention.

The study aimed to examine the extent of variation in high-risk prescribing between individual prescribers and between the practices they work in.