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Study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial of an NCD access to medicines initative: Evaluation of Novartis Access in Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Novartis recently launched Novartis Access, an initiative to provide a basket of reduced price medicines for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be sold through the public and private nonprofit sectors in programme countries.
Ashigbie, Paul G.   +5 more
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Asymptotic Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesCroatian Medical Journal, 2009
Medicine and “ Big Pharma” , as its strongest ally, are rapidly reorienting toward treating the healthy people, which is well reflected in the Ray Moynihan’ s term of disease mongering and Richard Smith’ s list of non-diseases. The most obvious and commonest reasons for this trend are profit (healthy people are more numerous and wealthier than ill ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine demand forecasting: an assessment of a private hospital in Pernambuco

open access: yesSocioeconomic Analytics
The efficient management of materials in the healthcare sector is crucial to avoid interruptions in the treatment of hospitalized patients, especially when demand is unpredictable and based on criteria of criticality, urgency and clinical status.
Eduardo Fernando da Silva Souza   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does culture matter at all in explaining why people still use traditional medicines? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Why do individuals still use traditional medicines when modern treatments are available? Economic explanations for an individual’s use of traditional instead of modern medicines are scarce and often fail to consider explanations beyond the conventional ...
Costa-i-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patients Knowledge of Prescribed Medications and Factors Affecting it in a Tertiary Care, Public, Teaching Hospital in New Delhi, India

open access: yesMAMC Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020
Objectives: To study patients’ knowledge about their prescribed medication and factors affecting it. Patients and Methods: An observational, cross-sectional study was conducted in 500 outpatients in the Medicine department of a tertiary care teaching ...
Vandana Roy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The human right to medicines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article considers the component of the right to the highest standard of health that relates to medicines, including essential medicines. Using the right-to-health analytical framework that has been developed in recent years, the first section ...
Hunt, PH, Khosla, R
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Rethinking health sector procurement as developmental linkages in East Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Health care forms a large economic sector in all countries, and procurement of medicines and other essential commodities necessarily creates economic linkages between a country's health sector and local and international industrial development.
Abimola   +43 more
core   +1 more source

The implementation of a Technician Enhanced Administration of Medications [TEAM] model: An evaluative study of impact on working practices in a children's hospital [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Children are frequently prescribed unlicensed and off-label medicines meaning dosing and administration of medicines to children is often based on poor quality guidance.
Bellis, Jennifer   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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