overdose and may reveal changes in prescribing practices that are shaping the evolving epidemic. Like Yokell et al, we have also noted—both in our own clinical practice and in that of colleagues—that real-time access to prescription databases for health professionals facilitates a patient-centered approach to addressing opioid abuse. In addition, we have encountered physicians managing chronic ...

Background: Drug-drug Interaction (DDI) among the elderly is one of the major healthcare challenges worldwide. The present study assessed the rates of DDI and inappropriate drug prescription among the elderly in Kashan City, Iran.  Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was designed, conducted, and reported according to the guideline of Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether variation in prescribing at the level of the individual physician is associated with opioid-related mortality. DESIGN A population-based cross-sectional analysis linking prescription data with records from the Office of the Chief Coroner. SETTING The province of Ontario. Participants Family physicians in Ontario and Ontarians aged 15 to 64 who were eligible for ...

OBJECTIVE To implement a prescribing-error reporting system in primary care offices and analyze the reports. DESIGN Descriptive analysis of a voluntary prescribing-error-reporting system SETTING Seven primary care offices in Vermont, USA. PARTICIPANTS One hundred and three prescribers, managers, nurses and office staff. INTERVENTION Nurses and office staff were asked to report all commu...

the basic objective of this study was to answer the question to what extent the salary received by the staff of the education office of zahedan has, compared to that received by the staff of other offices, has an effect on their job satisfaction and what the possible consequences are. the statistical universe of the study included all the personnel of the education office of zahedan as the targ...

Correct prescription writing habits could have a great influence on the fate of drug therapy as well as the health of patients. One of the major types of errors in prescriptions is the "errors of commission". In this study attempts were made to examine 519 prescriptions of the internal ward of Ayatollah Taleghani teaching hospital over a period of 3 months in terms of the nature and extent of t...

Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of healthcare products refers to a variety of marketing practices based on a combination of information and promotion strategies directed at consumers through different media such as radio and television broadcasts, newspaper and magazine ads, and, more recently, through the Internet. The principal form of marketing used by the pharmaceutical industry is th...