Within prescribed limitations, she offers a view of her profession and, grudgingly, of herself.
He thinks antidepressants are being wrongly demonised and are, if anything, under-prescribed.
Conclusion In our noninvasive ICU, TTE is under-prescribed.
One such drug class can solve uncontrolled hypertension in perhaps half of cases yet is widely under-prescribed and/or under-dosed, with tragic consequences.
A total of 61% of respondents thought that home HD was under-prescribed and 62% thought that PD was under-prescribed.
The main inadequacy seems to be the use of steroids: over-prescribed in upper respiratory tract infections [ 8] and under-prescribed for preventive therapy between asthma attacks.
However, analgesics, especially at level 3, were relatively under-prescribed to people older than 70 years, warranting further investigation.
Nevertheless, allopurinol has been under-prescribed and under-dosed, resulting in poor urate control and consequently worse health outcomes and higher costs of care [ 5, 10, 20- 27].
BBs were under-prescribed in the hypertensive population at large, likely due to exaggerated physician beliefs that they are poorly tolerated (Ubel et al 2003).
Despite proven benefits and indication for use regardless of age [ 1], warfarin is commonly under-prescribed in the elderly [ 2, 15, 16].
Optimal medical therapy is currently under-prescribed for symptomatic CAD patients and less than half benefit from such an approach prior to PCI [ 18].
