Is use of homeopathy associated with poor prescribing in English primary care? A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Objectives Prescribing of homeopathy still occurs in a small minority of English general practices. We hypothesised that practices that prescribe any homeopathic preparations might differ in their prescribing of other drugs. Design Cross-sectional analysis. Setting English primary care. Participants English general practices. Main outcome measures We identified practices that made any homeopathy prescriptions over six months of data. We measured associations with four prescribing and two practice quality indicators using multivariable logistic regression. Results Only 8.5% of practices (644) prescribed homeopathy between December 2016 and May 2017. Practices in the worst-scoring quartile for a composite measure of prescribing quality (>51.4 mean percentile) were 2.1 times more likely to pr

SUBMITTER: Walker AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5958361 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature