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To prescribe or not to prescribe

South African Family Practice, 2002
No abstract available.
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Inclusive and effective teaching of Nature-Based Social Prescribing for allied health professional students within digital environments

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionNature-based Social Prescribing is increasingly relevant to Allied Health Professionals in the UK, requiring educators to impart foundational knowledge on public health, health equity and nature connection.
S. Pywell, C. Wallace, S. Wallace, M. Davies   +3 more
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Prescribing by mental health nurses: the UK perspective

, 2009
PURPOSE. This article aims to discuss the growth of mental health nurse (MHN) prescribing in the United Kingdom as an exemplar for readers to compare progress in their own countries and context.
Hemingway, Steve, Ely, Val, Ely, Valerie
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Effective Feedback to Improve Primary Care Prescribing Safety (EFIPPS) a pragmatic three-arm cluster randomised trial:designing the intervention (ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01602705) [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundHigh-risk prescribing in primary care is common and causes considerable harm. Feedback interventions have small/moderate effects on clinical practice, but few trials explicitly compare different forms of feedback.
Barnett, KN, Petrie, Dennis J, Shaun Treweek, Barnett, Karen N.; id_orcid, Lewis D Ritchie, Guthrie, Bruce, Christopher Robertson, Treweek, S, Robertson, C, Bennie, M, Barnett, Karen N, Dennis J Petrie, Marion Bennie, Petrie, Dennis J., Karen N Barnett, Ritchie, Lewis D, Guthrie, B, Bennie, Marion, Bruce Guthrie, Robertson, Christopher, Ritchie, LD, Petrie, DJ, Treweek, Shaun, Ritchie, Lewis D.   +23 more
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Mental Health Nurse Prescribing: Challenges in Theory and Practice

, 2009
This article addresses the historical context of mental health nursing and its relationship to nurse prescribing.; examines some of the theoretical and philosophical forces that have molded modern mental health nursing, discussing the tensions between ...
Evans, David
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Quality of melatonin use in children and adolescents: findings from a UK clinical audit

BMJ Mental Health
Background Melatonin is commonly used to treat sleep disturbance in children and adolescents, although uncertainties about its optimal use remain.Objective To determine to what extent prescribing of melatonin complies with evidence-based clinical ...
Paul Gringras, Thomas R E Barnes, Carol Paton, Ashley Liew, Alice Ruan, Olivia Rendora, Gaia Bove   +6 more
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Dietary Protein Intake and Peritoneal Protein Losses in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients lose protein in their waste dialysate, potentially increasing their risk for malnutrition. We wished to determine whether there was any association between losses and dietary protein intake (DPI). Methods DPI was assessed from 24‐h dietary recall using Nutrics software.
Haalah Shaaker, Andrew Davenport
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The changing characteristics of patients with chronic hepatitis C prescribed direct acting antiviral medicines in general practice since listing of the medicines on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

JGH Open, 2021
Background and Aim The primary objective of this study was to determine whether the characteristics of patients prescribed direct acting antiviral (DAA) medicines have changed since initial listing of the medicines on the Australian Pharmaceutical ...
Doreen Busingye, Kendal Chidwick, Vanessa Simpson, Jonathan Dartnell, Gregory JDore, Anne Balcomb, Suzanne Blogg   +6 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Cluster randomised trial in the General Practice Research Database: 1. Electronic decision support to reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care (eCRT study) [PDF]

, 2011
Background: the purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate methods for conducting cluster randomised trials in a primary care database that contains electronic patient records for large numbers of family practices.
Little Paul, Van Staa, Tjeerd; id_orcid, Ashworth, Maek, Delaney, Brendan, van Staa, Tjeerd, Gulliford Martin C, Moore Michael V, Judith Charlton, Paul Little, Gerard McCann, Gulliford, Martin C., Charlton, Judith, Little, Paul, Grieve, Andrew P, Ashworth Mark, Ashworth, Mark, Martin C Gulliford, Grieve Andrew P, Grieve, Andrew P., Van Staa, Tjeerd P., Dregan Alex, McCann, Gerard, Charlton Judith, electronic Cluster Randomised Trial Research Team eCRT Research, Taweel, Adel, Moore, Michael, Andrew P Grieve, Lucy Yardley, Mark Ashworth, Michael V Moore, Dregan, Alex; id_orcid, McCann Gerard, Tjeerd van Staa, Dregan, Alex, Yardley, Lucy, McDermott, Lisa, van Staa Tjeerd, null null, Electronic Cluster Randomised Trial Research Team eCRT Research Team, Wolfe, Charles, Lisa McDermott, Yardley Lucy, Gulliford, Martin C, Rudd, Anthony, Moore, Michael V, McDermott Lisa, Alex Dregan, Moore, Michael V.   +47 more
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