Dr Nigel Masters is a general medical practitioner who has pioneered the concept of clinical indications on drug prescriptions in healthcare. He considers it the most significant advance in medicines management for the last fifty years. This website gives vital information about this important medical innovation.
Clinical indications are a combination of three or four words that can be used on a prescription to describe the effect on the patient of a particular drug.
This site exists to promote the use of clinical indications with the goal of seeing them widely used.
Learn about clinical indications
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Try the online demonstration
Find out about clinical indications in practice
New for 2008: Sharing adverse drug reactions with patients
Dr Penelope Barley writes about her use of clinical indications in an article reproduced on this site courtesy of Pulse Magazine.
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Enhancing Care
Clinical Indications allows all Healthcare staff to understand why drugs are being prescribed. Thus the health team can reinforce prescribing indication and drug compliance.
Increasing Safety
Clinical Indications clarifies need for specific medication use and adds essential safety information. Drug prescribing indication is a valuable risk assessment tool as it helps the prescriber balance risk and benefit of the medication.
Empowering Patients
Clinical Indications provides simple explanations of the reason for each prescription. This benefits patients who are on numerous medications. Carers can quickly identify important drugs and reassure confused vulnerable patients.