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Factors affecting general practitioners' decisions to adopt new prescription drugs - cohort analyses using Australian longitudinal physician survey data.
CONCLUSIONS: Our paper is one of the first to study the relationship between GPs' risk preferences, personality and their decisions to adopt new prescription drugs. Because NOACs are commonly prescribed and considered more cost-effective than their older counterpart, understanding factors affecting physicians' decisions to adopt NOACs has direct policy implications. Our results also highlight that even with universal coverage for prescription drugs, access to new drugs is different among patients, partially because who their doctors are and where they practice. PMID: 30728010 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Australian Family Physician - February 7, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Zhang Y, Méndez SJ, Scott A Tags: BMC Health Serv Res Source Type: research

Efficacy of a family-based cardiovascular risk reduction intervention in individuals with a family history of premature coronary heart disease in India (PROLIFIC): an open-label, single-centre, cluster randomised controlled trial
Lancet Glob Health. 2021 Oct;9(10):e1442-e1450. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00319-3.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease, a leading cause of death globally, is amenable to lifestyle interventions. The family environment can affect the ability or willingness of individuals to make lifestyle changes. We aimed to investigate the efficacy of a targeted family-based intervention for reduction of total cardiovascular risk in individuals with a family history of premature coronary heart disease.METHODS: We did an open-label, cluster randomised controlled trial (PROLIFIC) in the families (first-degree relatives and spouses, o...
Source: Australian Family Physician - September 17, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Panniyammakal Jeemon Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan Sanjay Ganapathi Sivasubramonian Sivasankaran Bhaskarapillai Binukumar Sandosh Padmanabhan Nikhil Tandon Dorairaj Prabhakaran Source Type: research