Prescribing

Understanding general practitioners’ prescribing choices to patients with chronic low back pain: a discrete choice experiment – Melanie Hamilton et al.

2023-12-01T15:27:59+11:00Clinical guidelines, Low back pain, Musculoskeletal, Opioids, Pain, Prescribing, Primary Care, Publications|

Although NSAIDs are recommended as a first line analgesic treatment, opioids are very commonly prescribed to patients with low back pain (LBP) despite risks of harms. This study aimed to determine factors contributing to general practitioners’ (GPs’) prescribing choices to patients with chronic LBP in [...]

Best practice guidance for antibiotic audit and feedback interventions in primary care: a modified Delphi study from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial resistance: Primary Care Antibiotic Audit and Feedback Network (JPIAMR-PAAN) – Schwartz et al.

2023-11-01T10:59:01+11:00Antibiotics, General Practice, Prescribing, Primary Care, Publications|

This paper provides expert-derived best practice recommendations for designing and evaluating peer comparison A&F for antibiotic prescribing in primary care. These 13 statements can be used by A&F designers to optimize the impact of their quality improvement interventions, and improve antibiotic prescribing in primary care.

Interactions between Australian cancer physicians and the pharmaceutical industry: a qualitative study – Adrian M J Pokorny et al

2023-06-28T15:37:53+10:00Cancer, Conflicts of interest, Health professionals, Prescribing, Publications, Risk, Treatment|

Cancer physicians may have difficulty balancing the perceived need to interact with industry in modern cancer care while maintaining distance to minimise conflicts of interest. Further research is needed to assess management strategies in this area.

Cohort profile: Using primary care data to understand Opioid Prescribing, Policy Impacts and Clinical Outcomes (OPPICO) in Victoria, Australia – Suzanne Nielsen et al

2023-06-28T13:19:05+10:00Opioids, Pain, Polypharmacy, Prescribing, Publications|

The OPPICO cohort is a population-based cohort based on non-identifiable electronic health records routinely collected from 464 general practices in Victoria, Australia, created with the aim of understanding opioid prescribing, policy impacts and clinical outcomes. The aim of this paper is to provide a profile [...]

Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of antidepressants for pain in adults: overview of systematic reviews – Giovanni E Ferreira et al.

2023-03-01T13:37:15+11:00Opioids, Pain, Prescribing, Publications, Treatment|

This overview of systematic reviews summarised evidence on the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of antidepressants for 26 pain conditions. No review presented high certainty evidence on the efficacy of antidepressants. Moderate certainty evidence supported the efficacy of SNRIs, mostly duloxetine at median doses of 60-120 [...]

The dilemmas of antimicrobial stewardship in aged care: The perspectives of the family members of older Australians – Chris Degeling PhD et al.

2023-03-01T12:29:43+11:00Ageing, Antibiotics, End of life, Overuse, Prescribing, Publications, Shared decision making|

Antimicrobial resistance makes the misuse of antibiotics in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) a significant concern. Family members influence antibiotic prescribing for RACF residents, but there is limited understanding of the beliefs and knowledge that drive their involvement.

Anticholinergic burden measures, symptoms, and fall-associated risk in older adults with polypharmacy: Development and validation of a prognostic model – Truc Sophia Dinh et. al

2023-01-27T11:39:32+11:00Ageing, Health literacy, Polypharmacy, Prescribing, Publications, Risk|

Anticholinergic burden has been associated with adverse outcomes such as falls. To date, no gold standard measure has been identified to assess anticholinergic burden, and no conclusion has been drawn on which of the different measure algorithms best predicts falls in older patients from general [...]

Two Decades of Overuse and Underuse of Interventions for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review – Oyungerel Byambasuren et. al

2023-01-25T14:48:06+11:00Cardiovascular disease, Hypertension, Low-value care, Overtreatment, Prescribing, Publications|

Quality use of anti-hypertensive and cholesterol-lowering medications is crucial for successful cardiovascular disease management. This systematic review aimed to estimate levels of over and underuse of services for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases from 2000 to 2020

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