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Prescribing practice research project
Partner: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland
Principal researchers: Prof Susan Tett, Prof Wayne Hall, Prof Claire Jackson and Prof Desley Hegney
This project began in late 2006 and aims to:
- Understand the influences affecting prescribers, including factors affecting the awareness and uptake of new drugs.
- Identify interventions/strategies to increase appropriate, evidence-based, safe and cost-effective prescription of medicines.
- Investigate patterns of drug adoption and displacement by practitioners.
- Pilot test interventions to improve evidence-based drug prescribing.
Date published: 2008-04-23 00:00:00
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