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How to Combat Prenatal Substance Abuse While Also Protecting Pregnant Women: A Legislative Proposal to Create an Appropriate Balance [PDF]
“Substance abuse in pregnancy is associated with a number of adverse outcomes for the woman, fetus, and neonate.” A recent study indicated that approximately 5.9% of pregnant women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four use illicit drugs.
Kennedy, Kyle
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The Future of Drug Development: The Economics of Pharmacogenomics [PDF]
This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and development (R&D).
John A. Vernon, W. Keener Hughen
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Clinical practice and costs of treating catheter-related infections with teicoplanin or vancomycin
Objectives: To elicit actual clinical practice of treating intensive care unit patients with catheter-related infections with teicoplanin or vancomycin from a hospital perspective.
Simoens S, De Corte N, Laekeman G
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Introduction: Medication and its cost in the country's health care system are of grave importance. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the increase in medication costs in comparison to the increase in medication funding per capita of the ...
Hosseinali Ghasemi, Mahdieh Raeeszadeh
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Background Few studies have evaluated direct medical or societal costs of haemophilia in the United Kingdom (UK), and how patient characteristics impact future costs is uncertain.
Ione Woollacott+8 more
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Optimal drug application on stochastic cancer growth: an approach through path integral control [PDF]
We provide an overview of an optimal control problem within a stochastic model of tumor growth, which includes drug application. The model comprises two stochastic differential equations (SDE) representing the diffusion of nutrient and drug concentrations.
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Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary [PDF]
This paper shows that the excess costs of the drug benefit plan are considerably larger than the size of the doughnut hole.
Dean Baker
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A drug cost model for injuries due to road traffic accidents.
Objective: This study aimed to develop a drug cost model for injuries due to road traffic accidents for patients receiving treatment at a regional hospital in Thailand. Methods: The study was designed as a retrospective, descriptive analysis.
Riewpaiboon A+3 more
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Drug Costs: What Can Infectious Diseases Physicians Do? [PDF]
Kapadia SN, Gulick RM.
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thesisThis study developed a general model for the calculation of drug therapy costs for the cost comparison of two or more therapeutically equivalent drugs. In order in identify all the cost of drug therapy, the drug use process was extensively studies
Knigge, Katia Pei-Wei Tung
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