Continuous professional development for drug prescribing was associated with reduced health care costs for patients, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers found that more intensive interventions were associated with greater improvements in prescribing outcomes compared with no intervention or less intensive interventions, but they incurred greater education costs for physicians.
“Continuous professional development (CPD) is essential to clinicians’ efforts to maintain competency after completion of training and includes formal educational interventions