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A Novel Approach for the Administration of Medications and Fluids in Emergency Scenarios and Settings
Published on: November 9, 2016
Medicines management. A tension seeker
M Shepherd1, H Ayyash, P Burrill
1Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital Trust.
Abstract:
Tensions exist across the primary-secondary care interface between GPs and hospital prescribing services. Repeat prescribing arrangements are a good focus for audit, as a patient started by the hospital on a treatment will tend to stay on it after discharge, with knock-on costs for primary care. Cost-effectiveness improvements in prescribing practice have included a significant reduction in hospital prescribing of 'loss-led' oral nitrates in favour of generic equivalents and the adoption as standard of the most cost-effective of the new proton pump inhibitors.
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