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William R. Barclay, MD

JAMA. 1981;245(8):849.

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Medical practice is coming under scrutiny by government agencies, public interest groups, third-party payers, and the media. Therefore, it is both appropriate and desirable that the medical profession conduct its own ongoing evaluation of its practice habits. Historically the medical profession has always conducted a critical self-examination of its methods and the results they achieve through activities such as grand rounds, morbidity and mortality conferences, autopsies, and controlled clinical trials. However, additional highly structured and organized review systems, which are based on criteria developed by specialists and through which the appropriateness of clinical procedures can be evaluated, recently have been introduced.

Criteria by which the appropriateness of antibiotic prescribing can be evaluated were published in THE JOURNAL,¹ and this has led to a number of studies, including that of Jogerst and Dippe in this issue (p 842). Because antibiotics are numbered among the most frequently prescribed drugs and because . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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