De-implementing Inhaled Corticosteroids to Improve Care and Safety in COPD Treatment: Primary Care Providers ’ Perspectives

ConclusionsInhaled corticosteroid prescribing in this patient population is partly due to primary care providers ’ lack of knowledge about the potential harms and availability of alternative therapies. Our findings suggest that efforts to expand access by increasing the number of prescribing providers a patient potentially sees could make it more difficult to de-implement harmful prescriptions. Our findings also corroborate prior findings that awareness of current evidence-based guidelines is likely an important part of medical overuse.

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Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - August 7, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research