I n this month's issue of PLoS Medicine, Steele et al. address a timely question in clinical medicine today—how best to use the potential of computers to change and improve physicians' prescribing behavior [1]. In evaluating the effectiveness of automated computerized alerts in a primary-care setting, the authors examined a system that had been developed to reduce the chances of a physician pre...

PURPOSE To evaluate the knowledge and behaviors of ophthalmologists in Turkey concerning micronutrition support in patients with age related macular degeneration (ARMD). METHODS This study involved 1,845 ophthalmologists. A scientific poll was sent to all participants by email. The survey covered the following: demographic features, subspecialty knowledge about micronutrition preference for p...

CONTEXT Persons with spinal cord injury or disorder (SCI/D) are at increased risk for antibiotic resistance because of recurrent infections and subsequent use of antibiotics. However, there are no studies focused on providers who care for these patients and their perceptions regarding antibiotic use and resistance. OBJECTIVE To characterize SCI/D provider behavior and attitudes about antibiot...

In this paper we establish that some nonlinear elliptic (and parabolic) problems are well posed in all of R N without prescribing the behavior at infinity. A typical example is the following: Let 1 < p < oo. For every f ~ Laloc(R N) there is a unique u ~ L~o~(R N) satisfying Au + lulP-Xu = f ( x ) on R N.

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that there is little concordance in perceptions of medication-related communication between patients and providers, with providers estimating greater frequency of such discussions than patients; and to determine whether discordance is less apparent among patients who received e-prescriptions. STUDY DESIGN Data are from a convenience sample of 96 providers pra...

Abstract Background: Prescribing pattern is also important factor to identify the problems related to prescribing and best tool to improve the quality of prescription and patient care. Methods: The aim of current study was to evaluate the quality of prescription and prescribing practices as per WHO drug core indicators in Lahore, Pakistan. A descriptive and cross- sectional study wa...

Inappropriate prescribing (IP) is a common and serious global healthcare problem in elderly people, leading to increased risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), polypharmacy being the main risk factor for both IP and ADRs. IP in older people is highly prevalent but preventable; hence screening tools for IP have been devised, principally Beers' Criteria and the Inappropriate Prescribing in the El...