OBJECTIVE To identify the factors that can predict physicians' use of electronic prescribing. DESIGN All primary care physicians who practised in a single geographic region in Quebec were invited to use a free, advanced, research-based electronic prescribing and drug management system. This natural experiment was studied with an expansion of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which was us...

OBJECTIVE To look for evidence of a relation between antibiotic resistance and prescribing by general practitioners by analysis of prescribing at both practice and individual patient level. DESIGN Repeated cross-sectional study in 1995 and 1996. SETTING 28 general practices in the Ninewells Hospital laboratory catchment area, Tayside, Scotland. SUBJECTS REVIEWED: 8833 patients registered wi...

Monitoring of general practice antibiotic prescribing is important to allow concordance with prescribing guidelines to be assessed. National Prescribing Analysis and Cost Data are limited by lack of information on the condition for which antibiotics are prescribed. Using the General Practice Research Database, we found that the 10 leading indications for antibacterial prescribing were (in desce...

Background Substantial variation in antibiotic prescribing rates between general practices persists, but remains unexplained at national level. Aim To establish the degree of variation in antibiotic prescribing between practices in England and identify the characteristics of practices that prescribe higher volumes of antibiotics. Design of study Cross-sectional study. Setting 8057 general pract...

Vægter, K. 2013. Promoting Rational Drug Prescribing in General Practice. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 858. 64 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 978-91-554-8582-5. Aims: To introduce the concepts “quality assurance”, “rational drug prescribing” and “outreach visits” in general practice in Storstrøm County, Denmark and stud...

Stopping prescriptions for medicines that patients no longer need is an important part of good prescribing practice. Yet, unlike the volumes of scientific evidence on starting medications, research to guide best practice prescribing cessation is rare. This would not be a concern if we could be confident that prescribing is routinely ceased when this is appropriate. There are reasons to believe ...