Changes in Australian Early-Career General Practitioners' Benzodiazepine Prescribing: a Longitudinal Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Australian and international guidelines recommend benzodiazepines and related drugs (hereafter "benzodiazepines") as second-line, short-term medications only. Most benzodiazepines are prescribed by general practitioners (GPs; family physicians). Australian GP registrars ("trainees" or "residents" participating in a post-hospital training, apprenticeship-like, practice-based vocational training program), like senior GPs, prescribe benzodiazepines at high rates. Education within a training program, and experience in general practice, would be expected to reduce benzodiazepine prescribing.

Objective

To establish if registrars' prescribing of benzodiazepines decreases with time within a GP training program DESIGN: Longitudinal analysis from the Registrar Clinical Enco

SUBMITTER: Magin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6153232 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature