Friday, 26 February 2016

Improving Pre-emptive Prescribing to Relieve Patient Discomfort Occurring Out of Hours

"Junior doctors are commonly asked to prescribe simple medications for symptom relief for patients out of hours. Unfortunately, time constraints and other pressures may lead to delays before the medications are prescribed. A quality improvement project was conducted at a large university teaching hospital to establish the extent of the problem, with the aim of finding measures to improve preemptive prescribing for patients."

Improving Pre-emptive Prescribing to Relieve Patient Discomfort Occurring Out of Hours
R Williams, F Herbert, A Orme, G Casswell
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u206301.w3757

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