scholarly journals Drug formularies and repeat prescriptions ‘Down Under’

Prescriber ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-34
Author(s):  
Angus Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Repeat Prescriptions

scholarly journals Antibiotic repeat prescriptions: are patients not re-filling them properly?

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Zayegh ◽  
Theresa L Charrois ◽  
Jeffery Hughes ◽  
Kreshnik Hoti
Keyword(s):  
Repeat Prescriptions

Medication review for the older person

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggi Banning
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Drug Dose ◽  
Inappropriate Drug ◽  
Older Person ◽  
Duration Of Treatment ◽  
Chronic Morbidity ◽  
Effects Of Aging ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Repeat Prescriptions

People of 65 years and older accounted for 21% of the population of England and Wales in 2001, and their proportion is increasing. It is forecast that the number of people over the age 75 years will double within the next 50 years, and that of those over the age of 90 will increase fivefold. The older patient with declining health poses significant challenges for health care professionals, in particular those of managing chronic morbidity and the effects of aging. Many older people require pharmacological treatment for multiple, co-existing pathologies. Those of 65 years and over receive 56% of all prescriptions in England, of which 78% are repeat prescriptions, and people in residential care, on average, receive five different medicines concurrently. The impact of repeat prescriptions means that, due to inadequate monitoring, many older people continue to administer medicines they no longer require, and thereby risk receiving an inappropriate drug, dose or duration of treatment. In addition to this, there is the propensity for older people to mismanage medicines, increasing their risk of unplanned drug-related admission to hospital and drug-related morbidity.

Points from Letters: Repeat Prescriptions in Hospital

BMJ ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (5661) ◽  
pp. 58-58
Author(s):  
D. A. Coffman
Keyword(s):  
Repeat Prescriptions

scholarly journals Out-patient drug treatment of pneumonia among children under two years of age in Fortaleza, Brazil

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Chizuru Misago ◽  
Tom F. Marshall ◽  
Walter Fonseca ◽  
Betty R. Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Agent ◽  
Antimicrobial Treatment ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Benzathine Penicillin ◽  
Pediatric Hospital ◽  
Prescription Patterns ◽  
Procaine Penicillin ◽  
The City ◽  
Repeat Visits ◽  
Repeat Prescriptions

Results are reported from a study on drug use in treatment of children with pneumonia in a pediatric hospital in the city of Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil. There were 171 out-patients; prescription details were obtained for 149. The most commonly prescribed antimicrobial drug was procaine penicillin, accounting for 33% of antimicrobial prescriptions, followed by benzathine penicillin (31%), ampicillin or amoxicillin (12%), and cotrimoxazole (8%). Benzathine penicillin was frequently given with other drugs, but was the sole antimicrobial agent for 31 children. Compliance with antimicrobial treatment was 52% overall and was higher for the injectables. Prescription patterns varied from child to child, and children were often prescribed more than one antimicrobial in the same or repeat prescriptions; combining this information with compliance, 81 (54%) of the children were estimated to have received 5 or more days of appropriate antimicrobial treatment for pneumonia. This percentage is not high, and five days were often reached after using more than one antimicrobial and after repeat visits. The authors concluded that the need remains for simple antimicrobial regimes, attractive to comply with, that can be expected to be consistently used. Other drugs were chiefly analgesics and bronchodilators.

Refill adherence to repeat prescriptions of cancer drugs to ambulatory patients

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L.G. NILSSON ◽  
K. ANDERSSON ◽  
A. BERGKVIST ◽  
I. BJORKMAN ◽  
A. BRISMAR ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Drugs ◽  
Ambulatory Patients ◽  
Refill Adherence ◽  
Repeat Prescriptions

scholarly journals Lesson of the week: Childhood Cushing's syndrome induced by betamethasone nose drops, and repeat prescriptions

BMJ ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 317 (7160) ◽  
pp. 739-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
C A Findlay ◽  
J F Macdonald ◽  
A M Wallace ◽  
N Geddes ◽  
M D C Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Cushing’S Syndrome ◽  
Cushing's Syndrome ◽  
Repeat Prescriptions
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