ArticlePharmacy world & science : PWS1999
Changing doctor prescribing behaviour.
Article in Pharmacy world & science : PWS, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Interventions to improve safe and effective medicines use by consumers: an overview of systematic reviews.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- A systematic review of educational interventions to change behaviour of prescribers in hospital settings, with a particular emphasis on new prescribers.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2013Pooled it
- A systematic review of the clinical and economic impact of drug information services on patient outcome.Pharmacy world & science : PWS · 2002Pooled it
- Combined intervention programme reduces inappropriate prescribing in elderly patients exposed to polypharmacy in primary care.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2009Trial
- The effect of hypertension and hypercholesterolemia screening with subsequent intervention letter on the use of blood pressure and lipid lowering drugs.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2004Trial
- A randomised controlled trial of the effect of educational outreach by community pharmacists on prescribing in UK general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002Trial
- Review
- Audit and feedback with or without training in-practice targeting antibiotic prescribing (TiPTAP): a study protocol of a cluster randomised trial in dental primary care.Implementation science : IS · 2021Article
- An evaluation of prescribing trends and patterns of claims within the Preferred Drugs Initiative in Ireland (2011BMJ open · 2018Article
- Quality circles for quality improvement in primary health care: Their origins, spread, effectiveness and lacunae- A scoping review.PloS one · 2018Article
- Diagnostic and laboratory test ordering in Northern Portuguese Primary Health Care: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2017Article
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- Indication for pharmacological treatment is often lacking: a cross-sectional study on the quality of drug therapy among the elderly.BMC geriatrics · 2015Article
- Adoption of new drugs by physicians: a survival analysis.BMC health services research · 2012Article
- The effect of an educational intervention on meperidine use in Nova Scotia, Canada: a time series analysis.Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety · 2012Article
- Poor adherence to antibiotic prescribing guidelines in acute otitis media--obstacles, implications, and possible solutions.European journal of pediatrics · 2011Review
- Medication-related admissions in older people: a cross-sectional, observational study.Drugs & aging · 2009Article
- [Cost reduction with project based prescription of generic ACE inhibitors].Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2003Article
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Abstract
The aim of this overview was to identify interventions that change doctor prescribing behaviour and to derive conclusions for practice and further research. Relevant studies (indicating prescribing as a behaviour change) were located from a database of studies maintained by the Cochrane Collaboration on Effective Professional Practice. This register is kept up to date by searching the following databases for reports of relevant research: DHSS-DATA; EMBASE; MEDLINE; SIGLE; Resource Database in Continuing Medical Education (1975-1994), along with bibliographies of related topics, hand searching of key journals and personal contact with content area experts. Randomised controlled trials and non-equivalent group designs with pre- and post-intervention measures were included. Outcome measures were those used by the study authors. For each study we determined whether these were positive, negative or inconclusive. Positive studies (+) were those that demonstrated a statistically significant change in the majority of outcomes measured at level of p < or = 0.05 between the intervention and control groups. Negative studies (-) showed a significant change in the opposite direction and inconclusive studies (approximately) showed no significant change compared to control or no overall positive findings. We identified 79 eligible studies which described 96 separate interventions to change prescribing behaviour. Of these interventions, 49 (51%, 41%-61%) showed a positive significant change compared to the control group but interpretation of specific interventions is limited due to wide and overlapping confidence intervals.
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