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The decision to prescribe: influences and choice
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posted on 2010-04-01, 00:00 authored by J E Thistlethwaite, Rola AjjawiRola Ajjawi, P AslaniPrescribing is a fundamental activity of general practice and prescriptions are a major cost to the health service. Yet the art and practical details of prescribing are rarely learnt in medical school; junior doctors lack confidence in writing prescriptions (Illing, 2008). Prescribing is not straightforward and involves a complicated decision-making process, by both patient and doctor, whose intricacies and governing factors are not yet well understood but where inadequate skills translate to suboptimal prescribing (Jackson et al., 2002). The prescribing process is not simply about choosing a medicine and writing a prescription.
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InnovAiTVolume
3Issue
4Pagination
237 - 243Publisher
SAGE PublicationsLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1755-7380eISSN
1755-7399Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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