in the past two decades, the number of countries giving the permission of prescribing to nurses has increased. nowadays, in countries such as australia, south africa, ireland, finland, canada, norway, new zealand, sweden, britain, spain, and america, nurses have the legal right to prescribe medicine. nurse prescribing can enhance the quality of care, save patients’ time and money, promote occup...

BACKGROUND Recent studies on prescribing among outpatients in hospitals in Western Nepal are lacking. The main objectives of the study were to obtain information on the morbidity pattern among outpatients and to analyze prescribing using drug use indicators. METHODS A retrospective hospital record based study from 01.01.2004 to 31.12.2004 was carried out among individuals attending the outpat...

Background: The guidelines for management of dyslipidemia released by the US National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) have been in use throughout the world. But South Asian Indian populations are reported to have significantly different lipoprotein parameters and atherogenic risk factors than Western populations. Even now there is paucity of data regarding the drug use pattern of the lipid...

BACKGROUND Most available quality indicators for hospitals are represented by simple ratios or proportions, and are limited to specific events. A generalized method that can be applied to diverse clinical events has not been developed. The aim of this study was to develop a simple method of evaluating physicians' prescription patterns for diverse events and their level of awareness of clinical ...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in newborns affecting both developed and developing countries accounting a quarter around one million deaths per annum. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to assess the prevalence of neonatal sepsis, culture isolates, pattern, antibiotic sensitivity and drug prescribing pattern. METHODS In present prospective study, 48 neonates admit...

BACKGROUND Even though ePrescribing systems are now available in many healthcare systems and have been a crucial milestone of the roadmaps towards eHealth in the last years, there is still a large heterogeneity among functionalities and performances of different systems. OBJECTIVE In this paper, we propose an updated comprehensive model for the ePrescribing process able to represent, analyze,...

BACKGROUND Patient nonadherence to prescribed medication is common and limits the effectiveness of treatment for many conditions. Most adherence studies evaluate behavior only among patients who have filled a first prescription. The advent of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems provides the opportunity to track initial prescriptions and identify nonadherence that may have previously ...