On Wednesday 14 February 2007 20:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would estimate that 2/3 of all Seretide is prescribed outside PBS > guidelines. It does seem to work though and patients like it - it is > probably one of the few cases where I think the guidelines should be > reviewed.
You comply with the PBS rules if you try a sample steroid inhaler first and if don't get a satisfactory result, you can prescribe the combo on PBS However, I usually do it the other way around -I give them a combined inhaler sample when they present poorly controlled, and once the symptoms seem controlled I start downtitration with just plain steroid inhalers per script. In some this doesn't achieve good enough control, and they are the ones who get a script for the combo Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
