Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf · Aug 2005
A study of adherence to drug recommendations by providing feedback of outpatient prescribing patterns to hospital specialists.
To study the effect of feedback using prescribing profiles combined with interactive group discussions on hospital specialists' adherence to evidence-based guidelines for drug treatment of common diseases issued by a regional Drug and Therapeutics Committee. ⋯ Interactive group discussions with prescribing profiles were found to be useful in improving hospital specialists' adherence to guidelines. However, the effect on the overall adherence was modest, indicating the importance of clear messages for improvement and relevant guidelines for the prescribing of specialist drugs but also more precise methods for evaluating the effect of real-life-interventions.