Effectiveness of the Combination of Feedback and Educational Recommendations for Improving Drug Prescription in General Practice

Abstract

The intervention showed that improving the quality of prescribing was feasible, particularly in overprescribing, and was associated with considerable savings in pharmaceutical costs.

Physician Response to Written Feedback on a Medication Discrepancy Found with Their Elderly Ambulatory Patients

“…23 Although physicians may be receptive to receiving feedback about their patients' medication discrepancies, translation of this feedback into positive action needs to be measured. Additionally, there may be some cultural or organizational resistance to the open disclosure of medication use discrepancies in medical records due to associated legal ramifications.…”

Impact of pharmaceutical promotion on prescribing decisions of general practitioners in Eastern Turkey

“…The quality and content of formal pharmacology education during medical faculties is another factor that can directly affect the formation of prescribing decision and the attitudes of GPs towards the relations between doctors and pharmaceutical companies. Critics argue that basic pharmacology rather than problem solving and practical application or audit is overemphasized during medical training in developing countries, and largely responsible for establishing poor prescription habits that subsequently prove difficult to change [26-28]. …”

Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance: An Overview of Priority Actions to Prevent Suboptimal Antimicrobial Use in Food-Animal Production

“…In human medicine, for example, consumer awareness through communication campaigns coordinated by the French government (campaign “Antibiotics are not automatic”) led to a decrease in volumes of antibiotics consumed (Sabuncu et al, 2009). Educating practitioners in small groups led by an expert also results in a significant reduction of drug consumption (Madridejos-Mora et al, 2004; Ranji et al, 2008). Conversely, wide diffusion of treatment guidelines appears to produce less tangible results (Faryna et al, 1987; Al-Momany et al, 2009).…”