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Evaluating the National rollout of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) in English general practice [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: Patients within general practices in England who are included in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) with linkage to PINCER implementation dates. Population Studied: 725 General practices, included in CPRD data, who implemented PINCER as part of the national roll out between 1st July 2018 and 30th June 2021.Patients

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.