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Researchers at the University of Leicester are aiming to improve the prescribing behaviour of junior doctors in the NHS which will save lives as well as time and money. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-nhs-errors-patients-leicester-academics.html Health Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:08:21 EST news286542481 (HealthDay)—Quality improvement (QI) methods can be used to rapidly implement national guidelines relating to appropriate first-line antibiotic therapy for children aged 3 months or older with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a study published online April 15 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-quality-methods-antibiotic-rx.html Pediatrics Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:20:01 EST news285249405 Doctors who graduate from medical schools with an active policy on restricting gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are less likely to prescribe new drugs over existing alternatives, suggests a study published in BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-medical-school-gift-restriction-policies.html Medications Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:30:02 EST news278872252 (HealthDay)—Medicare-participating physicians who failed to meet the requirements for Medicare's Electronic Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program in 2012 are being informed of their penalty for 2013, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-medicare-doctors-e-prescribing.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:30:01 EST news277477758 A study involving one of the nation's largest networks of pediatric practices was able to nearly halve the inappropriate use of antibiotics through quarterly monitoring and feedback of the physicians' prescribing patterns. The research, which is being presented at IDWeek, is one of the first to look at an antimicrobial stewardship intervention in the outpatient setting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-inappropriate-antibiotic-pediatricians.html Medications Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:54:16 EST news269794437 A study of Medicare data suggests there was wide variation in antibiotic prescribing for older patients based on geography and the season in which the prescriptions for the medication were written, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-variations-antibiotic-older-patients.html Medications Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:00:04 EST news267704919 (AP) -- Doctors increasingly are ditching the prescription pad: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-doctors-ditching-prescription-pad.html Health Thu, 17 May 2012 04:38:47 EST news256448307 A study evaluating off-label prescribing of medications in a primary care network in Canada suggests the practice is common, although it varies by medication, patient and physician characteristics, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. The report is part of the journal's Health Care Reform series. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-off-label-medications-common.html Medications Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:01:53 EST news253810895 Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-in-house-pharmacists-gps-errors-percent.html Medications Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:00:02 EST news248957279 A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine shows that commercial electronic prescribing systems (commonly known as e-prescribing, in which prescribers use a computer to order medications for their patients through a system with the help of prompts, aids, and alerts) could substantially reduce prescribing error rates in hospital in-patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-commercial-electronic-medication-errors-hospital.html Other Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:00:06 EST news247248831 Fifteen-month-old Mendel Grossbaum squirmed in his mother's arms as Dr. Darren Saks examined his ears and throat, then concluded the checkup with a prescription for vitamins - without ever touching paper. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-doctors-e-prescriptions-soars.html Medications Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:07:45 EST news229518450 Outpatient electronic prescribing systems don't cut out the common mistakes made in manual systems, suggests research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-outpatient-electronic-dont-common.html Health Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:39:00 EST news228627504 Thousands of patients in Scotland who are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events (ADEs) were prescribed high-risk medications by their GPs which could potentially cause them harm, according to research published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-thousands-patients-high-risk-drugs.html Medications Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:32:12 EST news227932309 A shift toward more conservative medication-prescribing practices would serve patients better, according to a review article published Online First today by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The article is part of the journal's Less Is More series. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-article-outlines-principles-approach-medication.html Medications Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:00:08 EST news227199470 (Medical Xpress) -- At nearly one in six pediatric asthma visits, antibiotics are prescribed as a remedy, despite national guidelines against the practice. Ian Paul, departments of pediatrics and public health sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, and a team of researchers published their findings online on Monday, May 23, and in the upcoming June 2011 issue of Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-antibiotics-wrong-prescription-pediatric-asthma.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:27:02 EST news226124797 Greater powers introduced by the government to enable specially trained nurses and pharmacists to prescribe medication in England have been successfully adopted, according to a new report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-wide-reaching-strong-nurse-pharmacist.html Other Tue, 10 May 2011 09:25:22 EST news224238306