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HOW COST EFFECTIVE IS THE TREATMENT? ARE PRESCRIBERS CONCERNED ?

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003
Cost-effective treatment should be of primary concern to prescribers in poor countries like Nepal. Thepresent study was carried out at a tertiary care hospital in Nepal to find out the perception of prices ofcommonly prescribed drugs among prescribers ...
B P Das   +3 more
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Trade Names and Generic Names Problems for Prescribing Physicians

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 1984
Drugs are marketed with generic and trade names. Our purpose was to study whether this dual name system causes problems to physicians. We interviewed 102 Finnish physicians to find out how well they recalled the composition of combination drugs, and connected the corresponding generic and trade names.
E, Hemminki   +4 more
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Study of knowledge, attitude, and practice of prescribing generic medicines by interns, residents, and faculty in a tertiary care teaching hospital

open access: yesNational Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2018
Background: Prescription of generic drugs can reduce costs without reducing quality. Lack of knowledge about the cost-effectiveness of generic medicines among the health-care professionals had led to a low rate of generic medicine prescription. Aims and
Ujwala Pramod Gawali   +3 more
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A cross-sectional study to compare knowledge and perception of generic medicine among medical students at a tertiary care center

open access: yesNational Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2020
Background: Prescribing generic medicine is still a debatable issue among prescribers and the issues of bioequivalence, quality, and safety remain problem areas.
Amit Vikram Singh   +5 more
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Prescribers adherence to the basic principles of prescrption orders writing in South West Ethiopia

open access: yesNational Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2012
Background: A prescription is an instruction from a prescriber to a dispenser. The prescriber is not always a doctor but can also be a paramedical worker, such as a medical assistant, a midwife or a nurse.
Sadikalmahdi Hussen Abdella   +1 more
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Accuracy of medication labels on community pharmacy-prepared dose administration aids: An observational study

open access: yesExploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2023
Background: Hospital prescribers often use the labels on multicompartment compliance aids or monitored dosage systems, known in Australia as dose administration aids (DAAs), as a trusted source of information about patients' medication regimens taken in ...
Zulal Uzunbay   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of out-patient prescriptions in rural part of central Gujarat

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2018
Background: The prescription error is a failure in the prescription writing process leading to wrong instructions about the identity of the recipient, the identity of the drug, the formulation, dose, route, timing, frequency, and duration of ...
Nitin Kothari   +2 more
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Natesto®. What Else? New Trends in Drug Naming

open access: yesNames, 2018
This paper is a lexicological study of the brand names of newly FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved drugs which aims at highlighting the new trends observed in drug naming.
Pascaline Faure
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Prescribing trends in a teaching hospital in Nepal

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003
Prescriptions of the patients at the time of admission to the college of Medical Sciences (CMS), Bharatpur, Nepal were collected for a period of 6 months to study the prescribing pattern in a teaching hospital.
Ranjib Ghosh   +3 more
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Study on prescribing pattern and rational use of antidiabetic drugs in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in tertiary care hospital

open access: yesNational Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2020
Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most common diseases in the elderly. Due to the presence of comorbid conditions, geriatric patients are usually on more than 1 drug and hence this vulnerable population requires frequent monitoring.
Pushpa V H, Nagesh H N, Ramesh H S
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