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Drug prescriptions in Danish out-of-hours primary care: a 1-yearpopulation-based study

Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2016
Objective: General practitioners are the first point of contact in Danish out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. The large number of contacts implies that prescribing behaviour may have considerable impact on health-care expenditures and quality of care.
Morten Bondo Christensen, Karen Busk Nørøxe, Grete Moth, Peter Vedsted, Linda Huibers   +4 more
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Network analysis of drug prescriptions

, 2013
Purpose Networks exist in many different aspects of the world, at social, economical, biological, and molecular levels. Network science studies their parameters, or quantitative indicators; its instruments make it possible to draw and analyze networks ...
Sergio Pagano, CAVALLO, Pierpaolo, PAGANO, Sergio, CAPUNZO, Mario, BOCCIA, GIOVANNI, Pierpaolo Cavallo, Giovanni Boccia, Francesco De Caro, Mario Capunzo, DE CARO, Francesco, Mario De Santis   +10 more
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Effects of Add‐On Icosapent Ethyl With Standard Treatment on Functional Outcomes and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ischemic stroke, a major cause of mortality and long‐term disability, results from the abrupt cessation of cerebral blood flow due to vascular occlusion or rupture. Icosapent Ethyl (EPA‐EE), approved for hypertriglyceridemia, has anti‐inflammatory and antithrombotic properties that may lessen ischemic damage.
Mitra Mahmoudi Meymand, Seyed Hossein Aghamiri, Saeed Mohmammad Soleymani, Shadiyeh Bararpoor Poshkohi, Samaneh Masoudi, Hadi Esmaily   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of quality of prescription by dental students

Journal of Applied Oral Science, 2014
Objective: The main objective of this study was to evaluate changes in prescribing pattern of Dentistry students throughout academic course. Methods: A case of non-complicated dental extraction was presented to all students that had completed their ...
Cariacy Silva de MOURA, Janeth Oliveira Silva NAVES, Eduardo Barbosa COELHO, Erica Negrini LIA   +3 more
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Vascular Disease, Non‐Steroidal Anti‐Inflammatory Drugs and Risk of Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives A history of vascular disease has been shown to be associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, but this may be due to reverse causation. In addition, non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs are thought to reduce Parkinson's disease risk, but evidence is inconsistent and confounding by prior vascular disease is possible ...
Clare Wotton, Carol Hermon, Sarah Floud, Gillian Reeves, Isobel Barnes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of potential drug–drug interactions and its determinants among outpatient prescriptions in six community chain pharmacies in Asmara, Eritrea: a cross-sectional study

Scientific Reports
Inappropriate prescribing of medicines could result in adverse drug reactions and interactions thereby leading to morbidity and mortality. Potential drug-drug interactions are preventable drug-related problems with the risks of hospitalization, adverse ...
Nuru Abdu, Tomas Tewelde, Nerjis Jabir, Saleh Idrisnur, Eyasu H. Tesfamariam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Pharmacotherapy Training Course on Improving the Drug Prescription Skills of Medical Students: A Pharmacy-based Intervention [PDF]

Future of Medical Education Journal
Background: Due to the growing issue of medical errors, ensuring safer, and evidence-based prescribing practices, a training course on rational drug prescription for medical students is mandatory.
Fatemeh Taheri Asl, Mohammadhossein Taherynejad, Maryam Emadzadeh, Mina Akbari Rad, Mohammad Ali Yaghoubi, Amirreza Rostami, Sepideh Hejazi, Mitra Ahadi, Samaneh Sajjadi, Amirali Moodi Ghalibaf, Ali Moradi, Sahar Ravanshad   +11 more
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Safety and Efficacy of GLP‐1 Receptor Agonists in Adults With Epilepsy, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Managing obesity in patients with epilepsy is complicated by the weight‐gaining properties of essential antiseizure medications (ASMs) such as valproate and pregabalin. We evaluated the safety and efficacy of initiating glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonists (GLP‐1 RAs) in this population.
Hyoshin Son, Inyoung Hwang, Sang Won Lee, Yun Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of medicinal drug interactionsin medicinal prescriptions in the Golestan province, Iran (2012)

مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی گرگان, 2016
Background and Objective: Medicinal drug interactions are one of the problems caused by irrational drug prescription. It eigher change the therapeutic effect or cause drug toxicity.
A Abbasi, S Azadfar, GR Roshandel, SM Hoseini, R Golsha, B Khodabakhshi, Kh Amjadi, Hajimoradloo N   +7 more
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Prescriptions errors: a comparison of handwritten and computerized prescriptions at Royal Medical Services, Jordan

Zagazig Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2014
Prescription errors are the most common errors of medical errors that may harm patients, so to decrease this problem computerized prescriptions are useful to be used instead of hand written, in this study we determine and compare the prevalence of ...
Ra’eda A.W al- Madadha , Mohammad A. Al-farajat , Amjad A. Alyazjeen , Hanan Masarweh , Tahani Alshqairat , Salah S. Haddadin , Yara Abu Taleb   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source