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Reducing antibiotic duration for acute otitis media: clinician, administrator, and parental insights to inform implementation of system-level interventions.
Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
January 2025
Center for Health Systems Research, Office of Research, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, CO, USA.
Objective: This qualitative study aimed to understand facilitators and barriers to implementation of interventions to improve guideline-concordant antibiotic duration prescribing for pediatric acute otitis media (AOM).
Design: Clinicians and clinic administrators participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews, and parents of children 2 years of age or older with a recent diagnosis of AOM participated in focus groups. The Practical Robust Implementation and Sustainability Model (PRISM) guided the study.
Effectiveness of interventions for convergence insufficiency: an observational study evaluating clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life using AS20.
Eye (Lond)
November 2024
School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Background: Convergence insufficiency (CI) is a common condition that can impair visual performance and comfort during close visual work. This observational study evaluated the effectiveness of interventions on clinical outcomes and health-related quality-of-life using the Adult Strabismus-20 (AS20) questionnaire in patients with CI.
Methods: Data was extracted from a database collected at first consultation from 2015 to 2022.
Off-Label Pediatric Medication Prescribing and Dispensing: Awareness and Attitudes among Community Pharmacists: A Questionnaire-Based Study.
Pharmacy (Basel)
September 2024
Department of Analytical Chemistry and Drug Analysis, Faculty of Pharmacy, 'George Emil Palade' University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Targu Mures, 540142 Targu Mures, Romania.
Off-label practice in pediatrics requires relentless engagement from all the health professionals involved. Community pharmacists are the last ones in the prescribing-dispensing chain; therefore, they have the key responsibility of verifying the correctness of a treatment. A cross-sectional study was conducted for assessing the awareness and views of Romanian community pharmacists, regarding off-label drugs in the pediatric population, through a 28-item questionnaire comprising five sections of different topics (general knowledge, frequency of prescribing and dispensing off-label medication, views, and attitudes).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffect of Fresnel prism in small-angle esotropia (≤ 20 prism diopters) with fixation preference.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
October 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Hospital and College of Medicine, 101, Daehak-Ro Jongno-Gu, Seoul, South Korea, 03080.
Purpose: We aimed to investigate the effects of Fresnel prism treatment for small-angle esotropia (≤ 20 prism diopters [PD]) with fixation preference.
Methods: We included 32 patients with remaining esotropia ≤ 20 PD measured using the simultaneous prism and cover test (SPCT) after full refractive error correction. Fresnel prism was applied to make patients orthotropic with glasses.
Prescribing Trend of Antibiotics Among the Patients Admitted in Intensive Medical Care Unit: A Prospective Observational Study.
Cureus
August 2024
Department of General Medicine, SRM (Sri Ramaswamy Memorial) Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Chengalpattu, IND.
Background: Intensive medical care units (IMCUs) usually admit patients who are in critical medical need and require the utmost attention of healthcare professionals, along with the best treatment options available. These patients are prone to infections and require various antibiotics for the treatment. Varying costs of antibiotics, variable dosage forms, and antibiotic resistance cause an economic burden on patients Methodology: This study was designed and conducted prospectively to evaluate the prescribing pattern of antibiotics at the IMCU in a tertiary care hospital.
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