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Impact of Six‐Month Monitoring Compared to Three‐Month Monitoring of Laboratories During Methotrexate Therapy

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate whether extending the American College of Rheumatology–recommended monitoring interval for complete blood count and liver function tests in patients receiving methotrexate (MTX) affects timely detection of medication‐related toxicity.
Spencer Simko   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Drug Prices in Middle Income Countries: How important are intellectual property rights? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the impact of trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) on drug prices in seven middle income countries. Applying both an econometric as well as an explorative analysis we find three key messages: First, the introduction of ...
Jütting, Johannes P.   +1 more
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Clondalkin Drug Task Force area action plan 2000-2001. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This action plan was designed to complement the Eastern Health Board's service plan and as such greater emphasis was placed on preventative strategies, projected costs being divided on a 70:30 basis.

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Comparison of Increase in Medication Costs and Medication Funding Per Capita of ‎the ‎Outpatients Insured by the Iranian Salamat Insurance in Isfahan, Iran‎

open access: yesمدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2016
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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Caregiver Perspectives on the Burden of Disease and Treatment in Uncontrolled Gout

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Uncontrolled gout (UG) refers to persistently elevated serum urate (SU) levels >6 mg/dL and ongoing gout symptoms despite use of urate‐lowering therapy (ULT). The objective of this study was to evaluate the burden associated with informal caregiving for individuals with UG.
Angelo Gaffo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scientific review of the literature on estimating the prevalence of drug misuse on the local level. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Prevalence of problem drug use (PDU) is one of five key indicators used by the EMCDDA to provide more comparable, scientifically based estimates of the prevalence of more severe patterns of drug use that cannot be reliably measured by surveys.

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The Crux of the Medicine Prices' Controversy in Pakistan

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2017
Kah S. Lee   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validation of Patient‐Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pediatric Measures for Children With Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To assess the validity of the Patient‐Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pediatric measures in patients with chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis (CNO). Methods Within the longitudinal patient registry of CNO, English‐speaking patients aged 8 years and older self‐reported PROMIS Pediatric measures of fatigue, pain ...
Mary M. Eckert   +43 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elevated Liver Enzymes Is Not an Impediment to Allopurinol Dose Escalation: An Observational Cohort Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Routine liver enzyme monitoring is advocated for while on allopurinol, but supporting guidance is lacking. We assessed the incidence and factors associated with elevated liver enzyme levels in patients with gout commenced on allopurinol. Methods One hundred and fifty patients with gout and normal baseline serum aminotransferases initiated on ...
May Shuen Tang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Prices on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits [PDF]

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This paper estimates the empirical relationship between the prices of cocaine and heroin and objective indicators of use. The set of outcomes is drug related hospital emergency department admissions where cocaine and heroin are cited, for 21 large U.S ...
Dhaval Dave
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