Real-time prescription monitoring linked to drop in high-risk medication prescribing
Victoria’s prescription drug monitoring program, SafeScript, has helped significantly reduce patients being prescribed high-risk medicines such as opioids and benzodiazepines by multiple doctors, new research has found. The Monash University study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, analysed over 6.7 million prescriptions for over 810,000 patients across 562 general practices in Victoria between 2017 […]