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THREAD: Online Portraits for BC family physicians
1/7 UBC’s Therapeutics Initiative now has Online #PrescribingPortraits: ti.ubc.ca/portrait
✅ Timely evidence
✅ Personalized, confidential prescribing data
✅ Recommendations to support
#BetterPrescribing & #BetterHealth
1/7 UBC’s Therapeutics Initiative now has Online #PrescribingPortraits: ti.ubc.ca/portrait
✅ Timely evidence
✅ Personalized, confidential prescribing data
✅ Recommendations to support
#BetterPrescribing & #BetterHealth
2/7 Why have a #PrescribingPortrait?
"How do I prescribe compared to others or to evidence standards?"
✅Portrait does NOT tell individual doctors how to practice
✅Portrait DOES promote optimal prescribing based on best available evidence
More here: ti.ubc.ca/portrait
"How do I prescribe compared to others or to evidence standards?"
✅Portrait does NOT tell individual doctors how to practice
✅Portrait DOES promote optimal prescribing based on best available evidence
More here: ti.ubc.ca/portrait
3/7 BC family physicians: How do you prescribe ACEIs and ARBs for #hypertension?
✅Register for your Online #PrescribingPortrait: ti.ubc.ca/portrait
✅View a sample portrait on prescribing of antihypertensives: ti.ubc.ca/2022/01/28/ace…
#BetterPrescribing #MedEd
✅Register for your Online #PrescribingPortrait: ti.ubc.ca/portrait
✅View a sample portrait on prescribing of antihypertensives: ti.ubc.ca/2022/01/28/ace…
#BetterPrescribing #MedEd
THREAD: How best to treat Urinary Tract Infections?
1/6 Our new TI Therapeutics Letter 135 describes the best approach for treating symptomatic, uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections (UTIs)
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter135
#MedEd #FOAMed #UTIs #BetterPrescribing
1/6 Our new TI Therapeutics Letter 135 describes the best approach for treating symptomatic, uncomplicated lower urinary tract infections (UTIs)
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter135
#MedEd #FOAMed #UTIs #BetterPrescribing
2/6 Use symptoms, not tests to diagnose UTIs:
Uncomplicated lower UTI can be diagnosed with > 90% probability if pt has 2 or more of dysuria, urgency, and frequency, and no vaginal discharge.
This is less reliably predicted for older women.
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter135
#MedEd
Uncomplicated lower UTI can be diagnosed with > 90% probability if pt has 2 or more of dysuria, urgency, and frequency, and no vaginal discharge.
This is less reliably predicted for older women.
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter135
#MedEd
3/6 No need to culture:
✅Fewer than 2% of urine cultures meaningfully impact choice of treatment or need for follow-up
✅Most guidelines recommend against culture for
symptomatic uncomplicated #UTIs
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter135
#MedEd #BetterPrescribing #BetterHealth
✅Fewer than 2% of urine cultures meaningfully impact choice of treatment or need for follow-up
✅Most guidelines recommend against culture for
symptomatic uncomplicated #UTIs
👉🏽ti.ubc.ca/letter135
#MedEd #BetterPrescribing #BetterHealth
