Background Educational outreach visits (EOVs) have been identified as an intervention that
may improve the practice of healthcare professionals. This type of face‐to‐face visit has …

Objective To summarise evidence on the effectiveness of behaviour change interventions to
encourage prescribing of generic forms of prescription drugs where clinically appropriate in …

Objective To assess the impact of a rational pharmacotherapy (RP) teaching program during
clinical pharmacology clerkship by analyzing the results of prescription audits (PAs) of the …

Background Numerous national guidelines have been issued to assist general practitioners'
safe analgesic prescribing. Their effectiveness is unclear. The objective of this study was to …

Objective. Evaluate a physician education program that communicated guidelines for
management of osteoarthitis in elderly patients that emphasized avoidance of NSAIDs when …

Abstract Objective To evaluate the Malaysian community pharmacists' views on generic
medicines. Setting A sample of 1419 Malaysian community pharmacies with resident …

Background Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used to treat
pain, but have potential side effects in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) …

Background Irrational prescribing of over-the-counter (OTC) medicines in general practice is
common in Southern Europe. Recent findings from a research project funded by the …

Background—General practice‐based pharmaceutical services are increasingly common,
ranging from global medication changes (eg, generic switch) to individual patient medication …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the generic substitution (GS) practices
undertaken by community pharmacists in the State of Penang, Malaysia with a focus on the …