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Ethnic minorities and prescription medication; concordance between self reports and medical records
... about prescription medication were recorded by ...a prescription during the past year was ...prescribed medication was linked to the survey ...OTC medication can possibly serve as a ...
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Emergency Hospitalizations for Unsupervised Prescription Medication Ingestions by Young Children
... RESULTS: On the basis of 1513 surveillance cases, 9490 estimated emergency hospitalizations (95% con fi dence interval: 6420 – 12 560) occurred annually in the United States for unsupervised prescription ...
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Emergency Hospitalizations for Unsupervised Prescription Medication Ingestions by Young Children
... RESULTS: On the basis of 1513 surveillance cases, 9490 estimated emergency hospitalizations (95% con fi dence interval: 6420 – 12 560) occurred annually in the United States for unsupervised prescription ...
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Sharing Prescription Medication Among Teenage Girls: Potential Danger to Unplanned/Undiagnosed Pregnancies
... Prescription medication was defined in the survey for the re- spondents as follows: “A ‘prescription’ means the doctor has signed a paper so that you can get a ...tion medication sharing, ...
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Prescription Medication Use Among Children and Adolescents in the United States
... The use of combinations with potential major DDIs was higher among adolescent girls (18.1% [CI, 11.0%–28.4%]) than among boys (6.6% [CI, 3.6%–11.9%], P < .05). This difference was largely due to the disproportionate ...
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Journal homepage: www.ijptjournal.com PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION USE AMONG ADULTS WITH LOW BACK PAIN
... In our study, visual analog scale scores were 6.4(day 1) and 3.3(day 14) so they recommended Gabapentin is as effective as other drugs in treating chronic low back pain. Consistent to previous studies to assess the ...
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Ascertainment of self-reported prescription medication use compared with pharmaceutical claims data
... the medication types, including those with low ...when medication exposure is relatively ...a medication in the unexposed or control group) may occur where medication exposure is common, and ...
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Use of prescription medication prior to suicide in Norway
... the prescription patterns at various points in time in the period leading up to suicide, and how such patterns may vary across sex and ...evaluating prescription patterns prior to suicide, it is important ...
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Medication deserts: survey of neighborhood disparities in availability of prescription medications
... of prescription medications in stock than independent pharmacies and may be able offer a somewhat broader range of preventive health services, including vaccina- tions administered by the pharmacists and ...
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The impact of preprinted prescription forms on medication prescribing errors in an ophthalmology clinic in northeast Thailand: a non-randomised interventional study
... Accurate medication prescribing is an important process in ensuring the best possible outcomes in the treatment of ...most prescription errors result from illegibility and incomplete prescribing ...a ...
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The influence of symptoms of anxiety and depression on medication nonadherence and its causes: a population based survey of prescription drug users in Sweden
... Conclusion: A cross-sectional design such as this does not allow assessment of causality derived from the results. However, the results indicate that patients experiencing symptoms of psychological distress are at ...
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Patterns of prescription drug expenditures and medication adherence among medicare part D beneficiaries with and without the low income supplement
... We examined total and out-of-pocket expenditures, the probability of having expenditures that exceeded the gap threshold, and the probability of adherence to medications among three groups of Medicare Part D ...
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Impact of computerized physician order entry on medication prescription errors in the intensive care unit: a controlled cross sectional trial
... The amount of ADEs was significantly reduced by the CPOE. The two ADEs that did occur in the C-U could not have been avoided by our current CPOE and moderate level of CDSS. Comparison between studies remains difficult ...
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Antihypertensive medication prescription patterns and time trends for newly diagnosed uncomplicated hypertension patients in Taiwan
... antihypertensive medication is similar [15], it seems that ARBs might be prescribed to substitute for some ACE inhibitors in medical centers or regional hospitals and this trend probably was unrelated to the ...
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Prescription reporting with immediate medication utilization mapping (PRIMUM): development of an alert to improve narcotic prescribing
... After revision of the trigger thresholds, Silent Surveil- lance 2 was conducted, and the rates of alerts and triggers were reviewed (Table 3). By changing the threshold to current prescription with >50 % ...
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Effect of prescription copayments on medication compliance and hospitalizations in commercially insured patients with heart failure
... of medication continuation across a six month period following a copayment increase (Motheral and Henderson ...group, medication discontinuation rates in the copayment change group did not significantly ...
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Non-prescription cold and flu medication-induced transient myopia with uveal effusion: case report
... The OTC, oral cold and flu medication contained mul- tiple ingredients that may cause the acute angle-closure glaucoma with uveal effusion. Paracetamol is one of the most popular and most commonly used analgesic ...
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The Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry on Medication Prescription Errors and Clinical Outcome in Pediatric and Intensive Care: A Systematic Review
... RESULTS. Twelve studies, all observational, met our inclusion criteria. Eight studies took place at an ICU: 4 were adult ICUs, and 4 were PICUs and/or NICUs. Four studies were pediatric inpatient studies. Meta-analysis ...
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Prescription of potentially inappropriate medication in older persons in Switzerland: does the dispensing channel make a difference?
... Table 1 depicts the characteristics of the study sample. Data from a total of 50,747 person quarter years were analyzed. PD individuals who obtained the majority of their medi- cation from the prescribing physician (PD) ...
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Co-prescription of medication for bipolar disorder and diabetes mellitus: a nationwide population-based study with focus on gender differences
... The results are based on data from the total Norwegian population, and the risk of selection bias is low. Our sam- ple was initially large; however, only 900 persons received medication for both bipolar disorder ...
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