Abstract Objectives Quality indicators (QIs) assessing the appropriateness of antibiotic use
are essential to identify targets for improvement and guide antibiotic stewardship …

Despite some remarkable achievements, there are several challenges facing Brazil's Family
Health Strategy (FHS), including expanding access to primary care and improving its quality …

Objective: Proper use of inhaled medications is essential for management of asthma, as
inhaled therapies are recommended as first-line for both prevention and treatment of asthma …

Background Adverse drug events due to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) represent a
considerable public health burden, also in Slovenia. A better understanding of the most …

Background Most effective strategies designed to improve antimicrobial prescribing have
multiple approaches. We assessed the impact of the implementation of a rigorous …

Background Prescribing errors and medication related harm may be common in patients
with mental illness. However, there has been limited research focusing on the development …

Objectives Evidence is limited regarding the quality of prescribing to children. The objective
of this study was to apply a set of explicit prescribing indicators to a national pharmacy …

Objectives Many strategies have been either used or recommended to promote physician
compliance with clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways (CPs). This study …

The growing pressures on all healthcare systems with aging populations, rising patient
expectations, stricter clinical targets, and expensive new medicines have increased the …

Objective We searched and described existing drug‐related indicators, and provided helps
for using indicators for quality assessment of drug use and developing new indicators …