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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 article provides follow-up guidance on patients with the most severe COVID-19 disease, namely, those that required critical care or had changes noted on chest x-ray consistent with COVID-19...
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...
Australian researchers carried out a systematic qualitative synthesis of 12 samples (Cleary et al, 2017). Using the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) for qualitative studies, all were deemed...
This UK study used a quantitative approach to explore the need for greater pharmacology content in nursing programmes, acknowledging that most pre-registration programmes limit pharmacology content to...
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