Prescriber Educational Programs

Independent Prescriber Educational Programs (Academic Detailing)

Background Information and Resources

The following provides background on Independent Presciber Eduction Programs, also called Academic Detailing.

Background Materials from the Pew Prescription Project

Academic Detailing Fact Sheet

Cost Effectiveness of Prescriber Educational Programs

AARP

Rx Watchdog Report- Academic Detailing (December 2009)

Prescription Policy Choices

Academic Detailing at a Glance

Academic Detailing Best Practcies (September 2009)

Prescriber Educational Porgrams Overview - Eight States and D.C. (September 2009)

Useful Academic Detailing Links:

Independent Drug Information Service (Harvard) 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Prescription Policy Choices Academic Detailing Toolkit

American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club 

Australian National Prescribing Service (NPS)

The Australian Prescriber

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford) 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Clinical Evidence

The Cochrane Collaboration

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs 

EBM online

Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (FDA)

Health Knowledge Centre (University of Toronto) 

Healthy Skepticism 

The Kaiser Family Foundation 

The Medical Letter 

Medline PubMed (National Library of Medicine and NIH) 

MedlinePlus Drug Information

Medscape 

National Guidelines Clearinghouse

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE- United Kingdom)  

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH Consensus development program 

OHSU Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP- Oregon Health and Science University) 

Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE - PA)

Pennsylvania Department of Aging  

Pennsylvania Department of Health