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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 BackgroundDependence on prescription drugs and illicit drugs imposes a global health and social burden. Despite accumulating evidence of prescription drugs and illicit drugs dependence, none of the systematized studies has explored the magnitude of this ...
Asma Nawaz +6 more
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Effect of Prescription Drug Coverage on the Elderly's Use of Prescription Drugs
INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2009 This paper evaluates the effect of prescription drug insurance coverage on prescription drug use among the elderly. Estimates were obtained using multivariate regression and a fixed-effects (within-person) research design that controls for unmeasured person-specific effects that may confound the relationships of interest.
Nasreen Khan, Robert Kaestner
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction This final analysis of a multicenter, prospective postmarketing surveillance study evaluated the safety of daprodustat in patients with chronic kidney disease anemia in routine clinical practice in Japan. Methods Patients who initiated daprodustat between September 2020 and July 2022 were registered.
Tadao Akizawa +7 more
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Is Drug Coverage a Free Lunch? Cross-Price Elasticities and the Design of Prescription Drug Benefits [PDF]
Recently, many U.S. employers have adopted less generous prescription drug benefits. In addition, the U.S. began to offer prescription drug insurance to approximately 42 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2006.
Jian Li, William B. Vogt, Martin Gaynor
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Trends in opioid prescribing in Estonia (2011‐2017)
Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2020 Our objective was to examine the trends and variation in opioid prescribing in Estonia from 2011 to 2017. This retrospective cross‐sectional study is based on a nationwide prescription medicines database.
Anneli Uusküla +5 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito +7 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background Recreational use of prescription drugs is widespread. We describe acute poisonings related to the recreational use of prescription drugs. Methods Retrospective observational study.
Marit Mæhle Grimsrud +3 more
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Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023 Aim: Our study aimed to audit prescriptions for the prescription indicators given by WHO and to analyze prescription errors, evaluating the frequency and types of prescription errors. Methodology: Prospective study was done in Dr. D. Y.
Sarita Mulkalwar +5 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Off-label prescription of drugs at hospital [PDF]
Farmacia Hospitalaria, 2016 Objectives: To develop a procedure for management of off-label medications, and to analyze the treatments, indications, and hospital units which will request them more frequently, as well as which variables will have an impact on the authorization ...
Vicente Arocas Casañ +6 more
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