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...
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...
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