Articles Tagged With: prescription
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Antibiotic Decision-Making Between Medical and Surgical Teams
In an observational study conducted at an academic medical center in London, researchers looked at factors involved in decision-making. The presumptive diagnosis of infection by the emergency department (ED) influenced decision-making by both medical and surgical admitting teams. Medical teams tended to use a multidisciplinary approach to antibiotic decision-making. Surgical teams often delegated antibiotic decision-making to the most junior members of the surgical team.
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Inappropriate Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing: The Need to Target Urgent Care Centers
Urgent care centers, which are part of a growth industry, are responsible for a large proportion of antibiotic prescriptions, including inappropriate prescriptions for acute respiratory diagnoses.
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Clinicians Prescribe Antibiotics for Excessive Duration in Patients With a Diagnosis of Acute Sinusitis
Clinicians inappropriately prescribe antibiotics most often to patients with a diagnosis of acute sinusitis for durations much longer than recommended.
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Data Suggest Abortion Does Not Lead to Depression
Results of a new study of almost 400,000 women indicate that having an abortion does not increase the risk for depression in women. The publication comes at a time when many state policies restricting abortion access have been justified by claims that abortion causes women psychological harm.
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Clinical Challenge: PrEP Is Not Reaching Most of the People Who Are at Risk
CDC leads efforts to build PrEP awareness and expand availability.
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Check Access to Prescription-Only, OTC Emergency Contraception
According to a new national survey, less than 10% of pharmacies have the ability to fill a prescription immediately for ulipristal acetate, the prescription-only form of emergency contraception (EC).
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Discharge Antibiotic Prescriptions Often Are Inappropriate with Regard to Choice, Dose, Duration
Seventy percent of discharge antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate.
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New Prescription Drug Labeling for Pregnant and Nursing Women
The FDA has updated the requirements for the pregnancy and lactation sections of drug labeling to allow pregnant women and their healthcare providers to be better informed about the risks and benefits of medications while pregnant or nursing. This article discusses the new Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule that went into effect in June 2015 and is being phased in over the next three to five years.
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Dietary Supplement Use Among the Elderly
A study finds increasing prevalence of polypharmacy and dietary supplement use among older adults and an escalation in risk of drug-drug interactions.
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Too Much of a Good Thing
In the United States in 2010 and 2011, an estimated 30% of outpatient oral antibiotic prescriptions may have been inappropriate, a finding that supports the need for establishing a goal for outpatient antibiotic stewardship.