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2 4 Junior prescribers appear most prone to prescribing errors, yet are expected to perform a significant prescribing role.
Current systems are unreliable in highlighting clinically significant prescribing hazards other than drug drug interactions and co-prescriptions.
The transition, from being a medical student with a limited prescribing role to functioning as a junior resident with significant prescribing responsibilities, poses a steep learning curve [ 3].
While practice nurses have become involved in the chronic disease management processes for primary care patients [ 66, 67] it is not evident from this study that as a group they undertake significant prescribing with these patients.
Additional File 2 and Additional File 3 detail results for four summary measures: at least one outcome in favour of CDSS; majority of prescribing outcomes in favour of CDSS; at least one statistically significant prescribing outcome; and statistically significant improvement on the majority of prescribing outcomes.
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However, educational initiatives in therapeutics have often failed to demonstrate significant improvements in prescribing, 14 with prescribers regularly failing to follow basic prescribing instructions such as writing legibly, writing the dose clearly and documenting the length of treatment.
When stratified for sex, living in a rural vs. urban environment and for the number of prescribed medications, we found no significant differences in prescribing patterns.
Studies in the UK and Australia found a significant reduction in prescribing errors detected after introduction of electronic prescribing systems, but also identified errors specific to the electronic prescribing system used, for example, incorrect product selected from drop-down menu, or incorrect dosing frequency selected.
6 We observed no significant difference in prescribing error rates between prescriber grades, when compared with newly qualified prescribers.
[Participant #4] There was significant awareness of prescribing as 'everyone's' problem, but in practice, as shown in the quotes above, antibiotic prescribing was predominantly deemed a medical responsibility, with pharmacy assisting.
Previous studies have shown that guidelines dissemination alone has no significant effect on prescribing behavior [ 14] while studies assessing the impact of DUR intervention letters or reports on prescribing for patients not specifically identified in the letter or report cannot be found in the literature [ 6].
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