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J M Wilks

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PubMed1980

Psychotropic drug prescribing: a self-audit.

In my 1971 survey of psychotropic drugs I suggested that the variety of psychotropic drugs and the use of barbiturates and minor tranquillizers ought to be reduced. Five years later these objectives had been achieved.A comparison is made with the national prescription rate in the main categories of psychotropic drugs. The prescription rate of antidepressants was appreciably higher but that of hypnotics and tranquillizers was considerably lower. The net ingredient cost of the drugs prescribed was 33 per cent of the rate for England.Hospital referrals, suicides, and overdoses are related to the national figures.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗
PubMed1979

Urine microscopy and infection in general practice.

To test the value of urine microscopy 100 consecutive specimens were examined in the surgery and the results correlated with the subsequent laboratory culture reports.An assessment of the degree of pyuria was made by low power microscopy of a thick drop of fresh urine. A second specimen was examined under high power for the presence or absence of motile bacilli. The techniques used are described and quantified.The laboratory report was definitive in 88 of the 100 cultures. All the 33 specimens with 10(5) bacteriuria had some degree of pyuria and in 27 (82 per cent) motile bacilli had been found. In the 50 with no significant bacteriuria no motile bacilli had been seen in 38 (76 per cent).In these 88 specimens a diagnosis made in the surgery based entirely on bacterial microscopy would have been correct in 80 per cent, combined with cytological microscopy in 87 per cent, and with the addition of clinical features in 92 per cent.In the remaining 12 cases the laboratory report was inconclusive and would have made no difference to my conclusions.

Bacteriuria↗
PubMed1975

The use of psychotropic drugs in general practice. A report of a year's survey.

All the psychotropic tablets prescribed by a general practitioner in one year are itemised. The patients who received them are separated into diagnostic groups and their treatment is analysed by the number of attendances, prescriptions, and duration of therapy. Hospital referrals and overdoses over a longer period are recorded. My policy in psychiatric conditions is indicated.

Adolescent↗