National Audit Office calls for more cost-effective prescribing

Infoway calls for e-prescribing proposals.

Canada Health Infoway issued a cal l for proposals for a $40-million national electronic prescription service called PrescribeIT. The service would connect clinicians and pharmacists so prescriptions could be issued electronically. The aim of the proposals, according to the July 15 call, is to deliver a system operating in at least two provinces or territories by late 2017. Federal Health Minis...

Audit: Prescribing PRN medication.

BACKGROUND PRN prescriptions enablehealthcare staff to respond quickly to the urgent clinical needs of the user without having to contact the responsible clinician (RC). One problem, established amongst most institutions by NICE regarding the use of PRN, is that most of these institutions struggle to keep an updated or full record on the PRN medications. Thus, the aim of this audit was to check...

Ward pharmacy: a foundation for prescribing audit?

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent and nature of prescription monitoring incidents by hospital pharmacists and to derive a performance indicator to allow prescription monitoring to be compared among hospitals in North West Thames region. DESIGN Survey of all self recorded prescription monitoring incidents for one week in June 1990. SETTING All (31) acute hospitals in the region with pharmac...

Making solvent recovery more cost-effective

Sampling: Making Electronic Discovery More Cost Effective

With the huge volumes of electronic data subject to discovery in virtually every instance of litigation, time and costs of conducting discovery have become exceedingly important when litigants plan their discovery strategies. Rather than incurring the costs of having lawyers review every document produced in response to a discovery request in search of relevant evidence, a cost effective strate...