Impact of selected clinical pharmacy services on medication safety and prescription cost of patients attending a selected primary healthcare setting: a translational experience from a resource-limited country.

Purpose Of The Study: The impact of clinical pharmacy (CP) services on primary healthcare (PH) is less well studied in resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the effect of selected CP services on medication safety and prescription cost at a PH setting in Sri Lanka.

Study Design: Patients attending a PH medical clinic with medications prescribed at the same visit were selected using systematic random sampling.

Impact of selected clinical pharmacy services on medication safety and prescription cost of patients attending a selected primary healthcare setting: a translational experience from a resource-limited country.

Purpose Of The Study: The impact of clinical pharmacy (CP) services on primary healthcare (PH) is less well studied in resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the effect of selected CP services on medication safety and prescription cost at a PH setting in Sri Lanka.

Study Design: Patients attending a PH medical clinic with medications prescribed at the same visit were selected using systematic random sampling.

A Statement of Solidarity on COVID-19 Pandemic 2020 by the South Asian Family Physicians.

The World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) is a not-for-profit organization and was founded in 1972 by member organizations in 18 countries. WONCA now has 118 Member Organizations in 131 countries and territories with a membership of about 500,000 family doctors and more than 90 percent of the world's population. WONCA has seven regions, each of which has its own regional Council and run their own regional activities including conferences.

Prevalence and alternative explanations influence cancer diagnosis: An experimental study with physicians.

Objective: Cancer causes death to millions of people worldwide. Early detection of cancer in primary care may enhance patients' chances of survival. However, physicians often miss early cancers, which tend to present with undifferentiated symptoms.

Expectations for antibiotics increase their prescribing: Causal evidence about localized impact.

Objective: Clinically irrelevant but psychologically important factors such as patients' expectations for antibiotics encourage overprescribing. We aimed to (a) provide missing causal evidence of this effect, (b) identify whether the expectations distort the perceived probability of a bacterial infection either in a pre- or postdecisional distortions pathway, and (c) detect possible moderators of this effect.

Method: Family physicians expressed their willingness to prescribe antibiotics (Experiment 1, n₁ = 305) or their decision to prescribe (Experiment 2, n₂ = 131) and assessed the probability of a bacterial infection in hypothetical patients with infections either with low or high expectations for antibiotics.

The Role of Physicians' First Impressions in the Diagnosis of Possible Cancers without Alarm Symptoms.

Background: First impressions are thought to exert a disproportionate influence on subsequent judgments; however, their role in medical diagnosis has not been systematically studied. We aimed to elicit and measure the association between first impressions and subsequent diagnoses in common presentations with subtle indications of cancer.

Methods: Ninety UK family physicians conducted interactive simulated consultations online, while on the phone with a researcher.

Trends in cardiovascular risk factors among people with diabetes in a population based study, Health Survey for England 1994-2009.

Aims: We evaluated trends in cardiovascular risk factors in a population-based sample of people with diabetes in England from 1994 to 2009.

Methods: Data were obtained from Health Survey for England for 1994, 1998, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009. Participants were aged ≥30 years with self-reported diabetes.