What factors influence PrEP prescribing behavior in health care providers?
HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily dose of two medications meant to prevent HIV infection in high-risk people, has changed ...
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Prescribing just a few opioid tablets to patients discharged from emergency departments can ease pain but prevent misuse
Barcelona, Spain: Half of patients discharged from the emergency department need only five tablets or fewer of morphine 5 mg or ...
New study in JNCCN highlights rapid adoption of clinical research results into chemotherapy prescribing patterns
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — New research in the August 2023 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network evaluates ...
Greater primary care continuity among older people is associated with fewer inappropriate prescriptions and prescribing omissions
Researchers from the Netherlands conducted an observational study to determine the association between personal continuity and potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) ...
Prescribing psychostimulants for people at risk of overdose
Growing evidence supports prescribing psychostimulant medications to help reduce use of illegal stimulants such as methamphetamine, authors write in a ...
Medical cannabis laws have negligible impact on opioid prescribing
State laws allowing medical cannabis use did not reduce prescriptions for opioids or other therapies for chronic, non-cancer pain, according ...
Students at the University of Warwick show benefits of social prescribing for dementia
Students at the University of Warwick are leading social prescribing research for dementia, highlighting the benefits of this innovative approach ...
New Utah study finds antibiotic stewardship program significantly reduced prescribing rates of antibiotics at urgent care centers in promising initiative to curb antibiotic overuse
Overuse of antibiotic prescriptions for patients with upper respiratory illnesses at urgent care clinics in the United States has been ...
Study shows patterns of opioid prescribing linked to suicide risk
Controversy surrounds the effects of policies to reduce opioid prescriptions on suicide rates. There are concerns that rapid reductions in ...
PCORI approves $123 million for research on postpartum care, hypertension management, antibiotic prescribing and a range of conditions
WASHINGTON, DC – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today announced funding awards totaling $123 million to support 15 new ...
Association of primary care visit length with potentially inappropriate prescribing
About The Study: In this study of 4.3 million patients, those who were younger, publicly insured, Hispanic, or non-Hispanic Black had ...
Alert banners dramatically increase prescribing rates of life-saving heart failure medication
An automated system that flags which patients could most benefit from an underused yet life-saving cardiology drug more than doubled ...
Benzodiazepine tightrope: Experts advocate provider and patient education and prescribing surveillance vs. overly strict governmental regulation
INDIANAPOLIS – Anxiety disorders are among the most common and pervasive mental illnesses in the United States. Antidepressants and psychotherapy typically ...
Trends in antiepileptic, antipsychotic, and opioid prescribing to nursing home residents with dementia
An analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that between 2015 and 2019, an increasing proportion of ...
Opioid prescribing after surgery remains the same for seniors, but doses are lower, study shows
New Orleans — Although there has been no decrease in the number of opioid prescriptions seniors receive after surgery, the ...
Scant evidence to support roll out of social prescribing policy internationally
There’s scant evidence to support the roll out of social prescribing policy internationally, concludes a review of the available evidence, ...
New randomized trial tests e-mail alerts to stop risky opioid prescribing
Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reported new findings from a clinical trial of email alerts from ...
Association between state opioid prescribing cap laws, opioid prescriptions among children, adolescents
About The Study: In this study of 482,000 children and adolescents, no association was found between state laws limiting dose ...
The effect of prescribing patterns on utilization of opioid medication in ACL reconstruction: A randomized, prospective trial
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (July 14, 2022, 8:45 a.m.) — Prescribing smaller quantities of opioid medication appears to be as effective ...
Most doctors still believe in prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections, study suggests
BALTIMORE, MAY 27, 2022 – An estimated 70 percent of primary care physicians reported in a survey that they would ...