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Patient and provider perspectives on how migrants access prescription drugs in Ontario: Implications for health policy and practice

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022
Background: Migrant populations are less likely to use health services or obtain prescription drug coverage in Canada, compared to their non-migrant counterparts. This research examines factors that influence migrants' access to prescription drugs.
Valentina Antonipillai, Lisa Schwartz, Olive Wahoush, Andrea Baumann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additional file 1 of Prescription drug monitoring programs use mandates and prescription stimulant and depressant quantities

, 2023
Additional file 1: Table S1. Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) Legislations. Figure S1. Number of States with Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) Use Mandate Over Time. Table S3.
Yuyan Shi (5566256), Christian Gunadi (11559276)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Features of prescription drug monitoring programs associated with reduced rates of prescription opioid-related poisonings [PDF]

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2018
Nathan Pauly, Patricia R Freeman, Jeffery C Talbert   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Evidenced-Based Opioid Prescribing Recommendations Following Hand and Upper-Extremity Surgery

Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online, 2022
The United States’ opioid epidemic has taken an immense toll over the past 2 decades when assessed by morbidities, mortalities, and economic costs. Prescription opioids are a substantial contribution to this public health emergency, and it is critical ...
Alexander J. Adams, MD, Asif M. Ilyas, MD, MBA   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A typology of prescription drug monitoring programs: a latent transition analysis of the evolution of programs from 1999 to 2016. [PDF]

Addiction, 2019
Background and aimsPrescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP), defined as state-level databases used in the United States that collect prescribing information when controlled substances are dispensed, have varied substantially between states and over ...
Smith N, Martins SS, Kim J, Rivera-Aguirre A, Fink DS, Castillo-Carniglia A, Henry SG, Mooney SJ, Marshall BDL, Davis C, Cerdá M.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Mapping the research addressing prescription drug monitoring programs/real time prescription monitoring systems: a scoping review (protocol)

, 2021
Background: Harm from prescription drugs is a public health concern. To address drug dependence, hospitalisation and unintentional drug-induced deaths, Australian states and territories are implementing real time prescription monitoring (RTPM) systems ...
Dimitra Hoppe
core   +1 more source

Association of prescription drug monitoring programs with benzodiazepine prescription dispensation and overdose in adolescents and young adults

, 2023
Prescription drug monitoring programs are state-run databases designed to support safe prescribing of controlled substances and reduce prescription drug misuse.
Karen L. Olson (14328773), Florence T. Bourgeois (7821617), Michael C. Monuteaux (6273806), Joel D. Hudgins (7821611), Kenneth A. Michelson (6312569), Michael S. Toce (11945004)   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Long-term nitrofurantoin: an analysis of complication awareness, monitoring, and pulmonary injury cases

BJGP Open, 2021
Background: Long-term nitrofurantoin (NF) treatment can result in pulmonary and hepatic injury. Current guidelines do not outline the type or frequency of monitoring required for detection of these injuries.
Toby Peter Speirs, Nicole Tuffin, Finlay Mundy-Baird, Helena Sakota, Sarah Mulholland, Michelle Westlake, Max Lyon, Andrew R Medford, Charles Sharp, Michael Darby, Mahableshwar Albur, Francis Keeley, Helena Burden, Charlie Kenward, Elizabeth Jonas, Shaney Barratt, Huzaifa I Adamali   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Opioid-related harms and care impacts of conventional and AI-based prescription management strategies: insights from leveraging agent-based modeling and machine learning

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2023
IntroductionLike its counterpart to the south, Canada ranks among the top five countries with the highest rates of opioid prescriptions. With many suffering from opioid use disorder first having encountered opioids via prescription routes, practitioners ...
Narjes Shojaati, Nathaniel D. Osgood
doaj   +1 more source

A retrospective and cross-sectional study to evaluate potential drug – drug interaction in hospitalized pediatrics, Bandar Abbas, Iran [PDF]

Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2018
Background: The incidence of drug interactions in hospitalized patients due to the administration of various drugs, the lack of proper monitoring and sometimes multiple patient’s co-morbidities, is common.
Motahareh Ahmadi, Abd Nazemi, Seyedeh Fatemeh Davoodpour, Fahimeh Gharaie Pour, Maryam Montaseri, Omid Safa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source