http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/ The blog for the forthcoming book "Medical Decision Making: A Physician's Guide" by Alan Schwartz and George Bergus (Cambridge University Press, 2008) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:43:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/comment-page-1/#comment-1389 Making Medical Decisions » Blog Archive » Making Veterinary Decisions Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:44:11 +0000 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/#comment-1389 [...] for the second course, but agreed. The infection continued to improve on cephalexin. Attention to principles of rational prescribing would have been beneficial [...] [...] for the second course, but agreed. The infection continued to improve on cephalexin. Attention to principles of rational prescribing would have been beneficial [...]

]]> http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Alan Schwartz Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:33:53 +0000 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/#comment-227 Carolyn, as a cognitive psychologist and a medical educator, I couldn't agree with you more! I have the impression that FLIP is also doing considerable work on those areas, but it's new project and that work hasn't come to fruition yet. Carolyn, as a cognitive psychologist and a medical educator, I couldn’t agree with you more! I have the impression that FLIP is also doing considerable work on those areas, but it’s new project and that work hasn’t come to fruition yet.

]]> http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Carolyn Semmler Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:21:22 +0000 http://www.makingmedicaldecisions.com/2007/flip-on-pharmaceuticals/#comment-226 Part of the major difficulty in improving the decisions made by practitioners in prescribing drugs is that the decisions are made under time/resource constraints. General recommendations for improving prescribing behaviour (like FLIP's principles for rational prescribing) may go a little way toward avoiding 'treatment traps' but more improvement must also come from effective education/ targeted intervention based on what we know about resistance to persuasion and cognitive biases. Part of the major difficulty in improving the decisions made by practitioners in prescribing drugs is that the decisions are made under time/resource constraints. General recommendations for improving prescribing behaviour (like FLIP’s principles for rational prescribing) may go a little way toward avoiding ‘treatment traps’ but more improvement must also come from effective education/ targeted intervention based on what we know about resistance to persuasion and cognitive biases.

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