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Effect of Prescription Drug Coverage on the Elderly's Use of Prescription Drugs

INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009
This paper evaluates the effect of prescription drug insurance coverage on prescription drug use among the elderly. Estimates were obtained using multivariate regression and a fixed-effects (within-person) research design that controls for unmeasured person-specific effects that may confound the relationships of interest. Estimates showed prescription
Nasreen Khan, Robert Kaestner
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The Burden of Nephrotoxic Drug Prescriptions in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Population-Based Study in Southern Italy

PLoS ONE, 2014
Background The use of nephrotoxic drugs can further worsening renal function in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. It is therefore imperative to explore prescribing practices that can negatively affect CKD patients.
Y. Ingrasciotta, J. Sultana, F. Giorgianni, A. Caputi, V. Arcoraci, D. Tari, C. Linguiti, M. Perrotta, A. Nucita, F. Pellegrini, A. Fontana, L. Cavagna, D. Santoro, G. Trifirò   +13 more
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Safety of medication use in primary care [PDF]

, 2015
© 2014 Royal Pharmaceutical Society.BACKGROUND: Medication errors are one of the leading causes of harmin health care. Review and analysis of errors have often emphasized their preventable nature and potential for reoccurrence.
Abramson, Abramson, Adubofour, Ahmad, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Alldred, Alldred, Aronson, Aronson, Ashcroft, Avery, Avery, Avery, Barber, Bayoumi, Berner, Bernstein, Beso, Boockvar, Boockvar, Booij, Braund, Bregnhoj, Britt, Brown, Buurma, Campbell, Carruthers, Chen, Chua, Coleman, Dallenbach, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean Franklin, Dean Franklin, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Devine, Dhabali, Eslami, Field, Fischer, Flynn, Gagne, Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, Garfield, Ghaleb, Ginzburg, Glassman, Green, Gurwitz, Hazlet, Howard, Hume, Humphries, Hämmerlein, Janice O. Olaniyan, Kaushal, Kaushal, Kennedy, Khoja, Knudsen, Knudsen, Kohn, Kuo, Lafata, Lasser, Leape, Lemer, Lewis, Lisby, Lopez-Picazo, Lynskey, Maisoon Ghaleb, Martínez Sánchez, Marwaha, Miller, Moniz, Nanji, Nemeth, Norden-Hagg, Palen, Paul Robinson, Pirmohamed, Raebel, Reason, Royal, Runciman, Sarvadikar, Sayers, Shah, Singh, Soraya Dhillon, Sorensen, Stefanovic, Sweidan, Szczepura, Tam, Tamblyn, Teinilä, Thomsen, Varkey, Vincent, Warholak, Wetzels, Wild, Wong, World Health Organisation   +113 more
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Systematic review of the safety of medication use in inpatient, outpatient and primary care settings in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries [PDF]

, 2018
Background Errors in medication use are a patient safety concern globally, with different regions reporting differing error rates, causes of errors and proposed solutions.
Abu Yassin, Abushaiqa, Ackroyd-Stolarz, Al Anany, Al Anazi, Al Hamid, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Odhayani, Al Rahbi, Al Shahaibi, Al-Arifi, Al-Arifi, Al-Dhawailie, Al-Ghamdi, Al-Hussein, Al-Jazairi, Al-Jeraisy, Al-Khani, Al-Olah, Al-Omar, Al-Rashdi, Al-Rowibah, Al-Tajir, Alakhali, Alanazi, Albarrak, Alghamdy, Aljadhey, Aljadhey, Aljadhey, Aljamal, Allan, Almazrou, Alshaikh, Alsulaimi, Altebenaui, American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel, Arabi, Aseeri, ASHP, Bates, Bryony Dean Franklin, Cohen, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dibbi, Elnour, Ferner, Fick, Flynn, Flynn, Gandhi, Ghaleb, Ghaleb, Hemida, Hepler, Hisham Saad Aljadhey, Hooper, Insley, Irshaid, Jamilah Alsaidan, Jane Portlock, Jha, Jha, Kaushal, Kheir, Khoja, Landis, Lisby, Mahmoud, McLeod, McPhillips, Mendonca, Miller, Mitwally, Morimoto, Morimoto, Nada Atef Shebl, Naranjo, Nebeker, Neville, Rancourt, Rashed, Rashed, Rehmani, Sadat-Ali, Shaughnessy, Sonallah, WHO, World Bank   +95 more
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Semi‐automated hippocampal avoidance whole‐brain radiotherapy planning

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Hippocampal avoidance whole‐brain radiotherapy (HA‐WBRT) is designed to spare cognitive function by reducing radiation dose to the hippocampus during the treatment of brain metastases. Current manual planning methods can be time‐consuming and may vary in quality, necessitating the development of automated approaches to streamline ...
Dong Joo Rhee, Subha Perni, Kelly J. Perrin, Kevin E. Casey, Alexandra O. Leone, Callistus M. Nguyen, Laurence E. Court, He Wang, Xin Wang, Eun Young Han   +9 more
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Branding of prescription and non-prescription drugs [PDF]

ACTA Pharmaceutica Sciencia, 2018
It is worthwhile to note that, while health related products are mostly function driven categories, health in itself is an emotive and personal subject. With this perspective, pharmaceutical companies need to focus on understanding the importance of branding in this rapidly changing social behaviour, competitive landscape, communication tools and ...
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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number of available years and permitting provincial rather than regional identifiers. Nonparametric Engel curves are estimated.
Sule Alan, Thomas F. Crossley, Paul Grootendorst, Michael R. Veall   +3 more
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Effect of anxiolytic and hypnotic drug prescriptions on mortality hazards: retrospective cohort study

British medical journal, 2014
Objective To test the hypothesis that people taking anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs are at increased risk of premature mortality, using primary care prescription records and after adjusting for a wide range of potential confounders.
S. Weich, Hannah Pearce, P. Croft, S. Singh, I. Crome, J. Bashford, M. Frisher   +6 more
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Drug-drug interactions in repeat prescriptions at village dispensaries (bereg) in Malta [PDF]

, 2013
Inappropriate treatments and drug-drug interactions (DDIs) are known to occur in settings where repeat prescriptions are issued. In view of this, a study was carried out to document any such problematic drug prescribing and propose changes that would
Bugeja, Anton
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Advantages and limitations of navigation‐based multicriteria optimization (MCO) in selectively sparing pharyngeal constrictor muscles in head and neck radiotherapy treatment planning

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Sparing pharyngeal constrictor muscles (PCMs) during radiotherapy improves patient‐reported swallowing function. This study aimed to explore the feasibility of integrating knowledge‐based planning (KBP) with multicriteria optimization (MCO) in Eclipse v18.0 to selectively spare PCM, quantify the required trade‐off in prophylactic ...
Laura K. Howard, Simon J. P. Meara, Ehab M. Ibrahim, Carl G. Rowbottom   +3 more
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