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This month we are going to look at some interesting and applicable advances in the area of treatment of bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety. Some new research is examined and implications...
As we know as prescribers, antibiotic stewardship and appropriate prescribing of antibiotic therapy to reduce this incidence of resistance is an often-focussed field of research (Zhu et al, 2021). In...
This piece of original research, carried out in May 2020 in China, used a questionnaire method to gather information about diabetic patients as a measure to determine recruitment before conducting a...
This review article from Tokyo in Japan was published in March 2020 and outlined what was being seen by clinicians dealing with ill patients in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (Iba et al,...
Two publications reviewed look at the prescribing of anticipatory medications at the end of life..
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is at the heart of controlling the spread of the COVID-19 infection in hospitals and care setting, as well as the wearing of face masks in public spaces. The use...
A large mixed methods systematic review of 236 studies aimed to establish the feasibility, acceptability and cost effectiveness of bariatric treatment including pharmacotherapy, orlistat. Twelve...
This Australian study described an intervention to reduce oxycodone prescribing, an additive opioid medication used for pain management (Kline et al, 2019). Opioid consumption in Australia is the...
Asystematic review published in 2018 synthesised evidence from 42 papers and highlighted the facilitators and barriers to nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing (Graham-Clarke et al, 2018). An...
This month's roundup will present some of the latest independent prescribing research in palliative care prescribing. This is a complex speciality where patients frequently have multiple...
This article is a review of the literature, conducted by researchers in the USA (Maes et al, 2017). They reviewed published cohort studies, case controlled studies, randomised controlled trials and...
This study was based in Denmark where antibiotic prescribing is the lowest in Europe, it explored GPs' (n=574) perceptions of delayed prescribing for children with respiratory tract infections...
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