{"title":"Quality assurance activity in general practitioner hospital patients: prescription of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.","authors":"M Surveyor","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prescription of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was recorded for 6 weeks in general practitioner hospital inpatients as a quality assurance activity. Concomitant use of H2 receptor antagonists and diuretics was also recorded. The survey was repeated 1 year later when it was found that the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had fallen from 30% of all patients to 24% in the follow-up study.</p>","PeriodicalId":77019,"journal":{"name":"Australian clinical review","volume":"12 1","pages":"35-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Australian clinical review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Prescription of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs was recorded for 6 weeks in general practitioner hospital inpatients as a quality assurance activity. Concomitant use of H2 receptor antagonists and diuretics was also recorded. The survey was repeated 1 year later when it was found that the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had fallen from 30% of all patients to 24% in the follow-up study.