Background: Managing warfarin therapy can be challenging and a multidisciplinary approach to achieve optimal outcomes can be beneficial. Internationally, extended roles for pharmacists have involved collaborative prescribing ...

Background: General practitioners integrate an array of social and environmental factors into their prescribing decisions. In teaching hospitals, despite the involvement of multiple practitioners in making and acting on ...

Background: The emergence of antimicrobial resistance reinforces the need for antimicrobial stewardship to promote the appropriate and judicious use of antimicrobials. Aim: To quantify restricted antimicrobial use among ...

Aim: To investigate the use of long-term antiarrhythmic (rhythm-control [RHY] and rate-control [RAC]) therapy for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in elderly patients. Method: Data were collected retrospectively ...

Evidence-based therapies (EBTs) for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) are reportedly underutilized in older people. The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of EBTs for the prevention of CVD ...

Aim: To review and document the current utilization of pharmacotherapy for the secondary prevention of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in patients discharged from an Australian hospital. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional ...

Objective: To Explore The Barriers To Warfarin Use From The Perspective Of Nurses Working In Aged Care. Design: A Qualitative Study, Involving A Semi-Structured Group Interview, During March-April 2001. Setting And Subjects: ...