Use of medicines by patients of the primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System
OBJECTIVE To characterize the use of medicines by patients of the primary health care of the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). METHODS This is a cross-sectional, exploratory, and descriptive study, part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso ...
Clarisse Melo Franco Neves Costa +12 more
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There are a number of ongoing developments to improve the care of patients with diabetes across countries given its growing burden. Recent developments include new oral medicines to reduce cardiovascular events and death.
Ileana Mardare +7 more
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What, who and when? Incorporating a discrete choice experiment into an economic evaluation [PDF]
Acknowledgements The Medman study was funded by the Department of Health for England and Wales and managed by a collaboration of the National Pharmaceutical Association, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, the Company Chemist Association ...
Bond, Christine +2 more
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Peroxide impact on the fate of veterinary drugs in fertilizers [PDF]
The presence of veterinary medicines in organic manure causes soil contamination which contributes to increasing resistance of indigenous microflora to drugs and results in greater susceptibility of people to allergies.
Kalka, Joanna +3 more
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Rational Drug Usage Status of Nursing Students
Aim: This study was conducted to determinenursing students’ rational use of medicines. Method: The population of this descriptivestudy was composed of 1177 students who were studying at a faculty of nursingin Istanbul.
Ahmet Karaman +3 more
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Reasons for continuing use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in students: a consumer commitment model [PDF]
Research on continued CAM use has been largely atheoretical and has not considered the broader range of psychological and behavioral factors that may be involved. The purpose of this study was to test a new conceptual model of commitment to CAM use that implicates utilitarian (trust in CAM) and symbolic (perceived fit with CAM) in psychological and ...
Sirois, Fuschia +2 more
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BackgroundMedicine use is the most common intervention in health care. The frequency with which medicines are used means medication-related problems are very common.
Renly Lim +4 more
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Self-efficacy and medicine use for headache among adolescents in Italy: results from the Italian HBSC 2010 study [PDF]
This article aims first to investigate gender patterns in medicine use, and corresponding headache complaints, in Italian adolescents; second, to examine the association between self-efficacy and medicine use for headache.
Cavallo, Franco +3 more
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One-Step Continuous Flow Synthesis of Antifungal WHO Essential Medicine Flucytosine Using Fluorine [PDF]
In Africa around 625 000 mortalities per annum (20% of HIV/AIDS related deaths) are due to the affects of the Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) fungal infection. Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) recommended that the first line treatment for CM is a combination of amphotericin B and ...
Antal Harsányi +5 more
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Evidence for the continued use of river dolphin oil for bait fishing and traditional medicine: implications for conservation [PDF]
Populations of the Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) are endangered, with ~3500 individuals estimated worldwide. Threats to this precarious population is exacerbated by accidental entanglement and illegal hunting for oil, which is used in bait fisheries and traditional medicine.
Vishnupriya Kolipakam +6 more
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