Treatment policies

Due to a combination of increasing concern about the implications of AIDS/HIV for the treatment of drug takers, and increasing polarisation of attitudes and treatment policies between the Drug Dependence Clinics and private doctors in addiction, the past year has witnessed a renewal of the debate about appropriate prescribing. However, although this debate tends to focus on the currently fashionable concept of flexible prescribing , it has frequently been characterised by the adoption of rather inflexible and extreme positions. 

Rational Pharmacentical Management Plus Program. 2005. Changing Malaria Treatment Policy to Artemisinin-Based Combinations An Implementation Guide. Submitted to the U.S. Agency for International Development by the RPM Pins Program. 2005, Arlington, VA, USA. 

As a response to increasing levels of antimalarial resistance. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that treatment policies in all countries experiencing resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to conventional monotherapies should be combination therapies, preferably those containing artemisinin derivatives. Currently WHO recommends the following therapeutic options artesunate-sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, artesunate-amodiaquine,... 

EEA, 2005. Effectivness of urban wastewater treatment policies in selected countries an EEA pilot study, EEA Report N° 2/2005, October 2005. 

Despite differences in treatment policies and recording practices, both common and divergent features are observed across Europe which cannot be attributed to methodology. 

Zaenglein AL, Thiboutot DM. Acne vulgaris. In Horn TD, Mancini AJ, Mascaro JM, et al, eds. Dermatology. London, Mosby, 2003 531—544. Ortonne JP. Oral isotretinoin treatment policy Do we all agree Dermatology 1997 195(Suppl) 34-37. 

These are increasingly important tools in evidence-based medicine and their underlying purpose is to guide health and treatment policies, and the future research agenda. 

Ortonne JP (1997) Oral isotretinoin treatment policy. Do we all agree Dermatology 195 (Suppl 1) 34-37 Ott F, Bollag W, Geiger JM (1996) Efficacy of oral low-dose tretinoin (all-tran5-retinoic acid) in lichen planus. Dermatology 192 334-336... 

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