Letter: Prescribing habits.

Is it Possible to Change Prescribing Habits?

Opioid prescribing habits of physicians in Kwara State, Nigeria.

OBJECTIVE Although opioid analgesics are effective in the treatment of moderate to severe acute, cancer and chronic non-malignant pains, they are under-prescribed in Nigeria. The objective of this study was to assess the prescription pattern of opioids among physicians in a north central State, Nigeria.. DESIGN This was a descriptive cross sectional study. SETTING The study was conducted at...

Practitioner Prescribing Habits for Pharyngitis: Implications for Evaluation and Management

ARACELIS D. FERNANDEZ, MD (bottom right), is a third-year fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at The New York Hospital – Cornell University. She did her pediatric residency at The Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center. Emerging bacterial resistance patterns suggest that clinicians should use restraint in prescribing antibiotics for various infections. We used pharyngitis as the model...

Outpatient Hypertension Control and Prescribing Habits for Hypertension in Taiwan.

BACKGROUND Hypertension control is of the utmost importance for reducing cardiovascular risk. In Taiwan, the hypertension control rate of the general population is low (25%). We investigated the factors affecting outpatient hypertension control to determine whether the low control rate stems from clinician unawareness or inadequate public education. METHODS Hypertensive patients were recruite...

Prescribing habits of Peruvian physicians and factors influencing them.

A survey conducted between September 1991 and August 1992 approached 800 physicians in two marginal areas of the cities of Lima and Chimbote, Peru. Among other things, the survey sought data about information sources influencing the drug prescription practices of Peruvian physicians, about how these practices were modified by experience, and about the rationality of drug treatments prescribed f...