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Standards of aminoglycoside therapeutic drug monitoring in a South African private hospital: perspectives and implications [PDF]

open access: yesGhana Medical Journal, 2019
Background: Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is essential to ensure that aminoglycoside peak concentrations are high enough for effective antimicrobial treatment and trough levels are low enough to minimise toxicity. Inappropriate utilisation of TDM may
Mariette du Toit   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methylphenidate and atomoxetine prescribing trends in children in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, 2005–2013

open access: yesHealth SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences, 2018
Background: There is paucity of data on methylphenidate and atomoxetine prescribing patterns in South African children.   Aim: To describe the prescribing trends of these agents in children residing in the Western Cape Province.
Liezl Joubert   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grammar is grammar and usage is usage [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage, 2003
A number of disparate approaches to language, ranging from cognitive linguistics to stochastic implementations of optimality theory, have challenged the classical distinction between knowledge of language and use of language. Supporters of such approaches point to the functional motivation of grammatical structure, language users’ sensitivity to the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Standardized freeze-dried FMT: is the ideal protectant out there?

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology
BackgroundFecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections. Freeze-drying offers a next-generation, more practical, and aesthetically acceptable FMT formulation that could facilitate ...
Alix Pourrat   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risks for Workers Handling Solid Oral Doses: Development of a Tool to Improve Personal Protection

open access: yesPharmaceutical Technology in Hospital Pharmacy, 2016
Handling of pharmaceutical specialities is required before its distribution or administration. Unpackaging and repackaging solid oral doses (SOD) in pharmacy settings; crushing, pills fragmenting or capsules opening inside care units may expose nurses ...
Sgarioto Amandine   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influencing software usage [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the tenth conference on Computers, freedom and privacy: challenging the assumptions, 2000
Technology designers often strive to design systems that are flexible enough to be used in a wide range of situations. Software engineers, in particular, are trained to seek general solutions to problems. General solutions can be used not only to address the problem at hand, but also to address a wide range of problems that the designers may not have ...
Lorrie Faith Cranor, Rebecca N. Wright
openaire   +2 more sources

Changes in the incidence and prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in the South African medical schemes environment: 2005–2015

open access: yesSouthern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2020
Background: The South African (SA) private medical schemes environment has over the past two decades respond to the evolving needs of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Floidy Wafawanaka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paediatric formulation: budesonide 0.1 mg/mL viscous oral solution for eosinophilic esophagitis using cyclodextrins

open access: yesPharmaceutical Technology in Hospital Pharmacy, 2018
Viscous oral solutions of budesonide (dose range: 1 mg to 2 mg) have long been used to treat eosinophilic oesophagitis in children. The objective of the present study was to provide a convenient paediatric pharmaceutical formulation of a viscous ...
Ey Caroline   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Contribution of the Humanities and Social Sciences to Pharmacy Education: Literature Review and Perspectives

open access: yesPharmacy, 2020
Background: Healthcare systems worldwide adapt to patients’ needs and expectations, following social evolutions. Pharmaceutical practice has shifted towards activities such as therapeutic education.
Caroline Boulliat   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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