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Do Continuing Medical Education Programs Improve Drug Prescribing Status in Iran? A Qualitative Study [PDF]

مجله علوم پزشکی صدرا, 2019
Background: Holdingcontinuing medical education programs (CME) is one of the recommended global strategies for attaining rational drug prescribing by physicians.
Mahmood Keyvanara, Leili Safaeian, Neda Shojaeizadeh, Saeid Karimi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Real‐World Trends in Prenatal Antirheumatic Drug Utilization in Ontario, Canada: A Cross‐Sectional Time‐Series Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to describe real‐world trends in preconception and prenatal use of antirheumatic drugs among pregnant individuals with rheumatic diseases in Ontario, Canada. Methods We conducted a time‐series analysis using repeated cross‐sectional data to examine annual patterns of disease‐modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) use among ...
Shenthuraan Tharmarajah, Swaleh Hussain, Sara J. T. Guilcher, Lisa M. McCarthy, Dharini Mahendira, Howard Berger, Mina Tadrous   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in China [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2019
KEY POINTS Antibiotic resistance is now a major health threat globally; it results in increased costs of treatment, higher than expected mortality rates for infectious diseases, and difficulty in preventing infection.
Guodong, Ding, Angela, Vinturache, Min, Lu   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Multimorbidity or polypharmacy: two sides of the same coin?

, 2015
Polypharmacy, broadly defined as the chronic co-prescription of several drugs [1], has long been recognized as problematic. The greater the number of medicines a patient takes, the greater the risk of adverse effects of any one medicine, and the greater ...
Carol Sinnott, Sinnott, Carol, Bradley, Colin P., Colin P. Bradley   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Health Care Use Among Patients Presenting to Emergency Department for Gout Flares in Ontario, Canada: A Population‐Based Health Systems Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We characterized emergency department (ED) gout visits and identified patient characteristics and health services patterns contributing to ED presentations. Methods We conducted a population‐based study of ED gout visits in Ontario, Canada, between 2014 and 2023.
Timothy S. H. Kwok, Samantha Morais, William K. Silverstein, Clare L. Atzema, Gregory Choy, Priyanka Chandratre, Ping Li, Jessica Widdifield   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

DataSheet1_A tool for screening potentially inappropriate prescribing in Chinese children.docx

, 2022
Background: More than half of adverse drug events in pediatric patients are avoidable and blocking medication errors at the prescribing stage might be one of the most effective preventive measures.Objective: To form a tool (a series of criteria) for ...
Linan Zeng (525069), Lingli Zhang (160932), Dan Yu (214174), Guo Cheng (165415), Liang Huang (114017), Siyu Li (404947), Zhi-Jun Jia (2213686)   +6 more
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang, Zixuan Zhang, Bingyan Li, Junkai Wang, Hongcheng Gu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inappropriate prescribing for the elderly—a modern epidemic? [PDF]

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2012
The elderly often use several drugs on a regular basis and are especially at risk for drug-related harm from side effects and interactions. The aim of this study was to explore the overall prevalence of and predictors for potentially inappropriate medication use among Norwegian elderly outpatients.A pharmaco-epidemiological retrospective cross ...
Nyborg, Gunhild, Straand, Jørund, Brekke, Mette   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Dictionary‐based weak‐form training for noise‐robust series hybrid models with multiplicative unknowns

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid modeling combines first‐principles equations with a data‐driven subcomponent. Training for the data‐driven part is sensitive to measurement noise when training targets are constructed using pointwise time derivatives. Beyond differentiation errors, hybrid models involve solving an inverse problem to estimate the data‐driven term, which ...
Hangjun Cho, Akshay Kudva, Parth Shah, Dongheon Lee, Joseph Sang‐Il Kwon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potentially inappropriate prescribing in a falls clinic using the STOPP and START criteria

, 2022
Background Potentially inappropriate prescribing is increasingly common in older patients with falls. However, published indicators to assess inappropriate prescribing remains unestablished in many countries.
Nor'izzati, Saedon, Sukanya, A/P Subramaniam, Tan, Maw Pin *, Noor Fatin Izzati, Binti Abu Hashim, Khor, Hui Min, Rosalind, Chiam, Siti Sakinah, Binti Mohmad Nasir   +6 more
core   +1 more source