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This study, published in the journal EP Europace, sought to establish a prospective registry looking at the contemporary management of patients with atrial fibrillation by cardiologists, GPs and other...
Do you remember your first few weeks and months as a qualified prescriber? I imagine you do, regardless of how long ago you obtained the qualification. I liken it to driving a car for the first time...
This article, published in the journal Rheumatology, looked at the newly published guidance by the British Society for Rheumatology. The article outlines the need for the guidance and discusses the...
This retrospective cohort study, published in the journal Lancet Public Health online sought to identify mortality amongst people prescribed opioid agonist therapy in Scotland between the years 2011...
Welcome to this June issue of Journal of Prescribing Practice. It's been a busy time since I last wrote to you all. We have welcomed our new Editor Polly and a lot has been happening in the healthcare...
This article in the journal JAMA Cardiology presents the findings of a cluster randomised clinical trial involving 4131 patients from 28 primary care practices and 158 clinicians between October 2019...
This article, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, sought to identify the barriers to prescribing more environmentally friendly inhalers (Parker, 2023). One of the drivers for this article was...
This cohort study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, aimed to identify trends in antipsychotic drug prescribing to children and adolescents in England (Radojčić et al, 2023). This was driven...
This article was published in BMC Medicine, used a retrospective cohort study approach to examine data between 2000 and 2019 (Subramanian et al, 2023). The author's main driver to conduct this...
A visit to my GP recently, which required a prescription, led me to ask myself: when was the last time I held a paper FP10 green prescription in my hand? As someone with a long-term condition...
This piece of original research published in July 2022 aimed to elucidate the burden and associated cost of ADRs, polypharmacy and multimorbidity with a prospective analysis of all medical admissions...
This article, published in the International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy aimed to investigate the prescribing of medicines to homeless persons who present to specialist homelessness primary care...
This review of the literature published in the Journal of Geriatric Oncology aimed to elucidate the scale of the issue in a population of older adult patients with cancer and to discuss the...
This paper, published in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, is a review of progress made in independent prescribing in the UK (Fitzpatrick and Borthwick, 2022). Its publication marks the 10-year...
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