The defined daily dose (DDD)
Measurement of adult antimicrobial drug use in tertiary care hospital using defined daily dose and days of therapy
... and defined daily dose per 1000 patient ...by defined daily dose method will remain open to criticism because the prescribed dosage is not often in agreement with the “usual” ...
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Implementation of a vaccine against Shigatoxin 2e in a piglet producing farm with problems of Oedema disease: case study
... questioned by the public, also because the use of antimi- crobials [2] and zinc oxide increases resistance in E. coli [3]. While in general the resistance of E. coli to colistin is low (<1%), in some cases in Belgium ...
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Effect of statins on fasting glucose in non-diabetic individuals: nationwide population-based health examination in Korea
... of defined daily doses per day (anDDD) = ‘cumulative doses of statins during the period divided by total number of days and defined daily dose of each ...statin’. Defined ...
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Antimicrobial stewardship of Chinese ministry of health reduces multidrug resistant organism isolates in critically ill patients: a pre post study from a single center
... 40 Defined Daily Dose (DDD) per 100 patient; ra- tionality of antibiotic use, which includes timing, duration and appropriate medications should be more than ...
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A 15 year overview of increasing tramadol utilisation and associated mortality and the impact of tramadol classification in the United Kingdom
... monthly Defined Daily Dose (DDD)/1000 registrants, monthly prevalence and incidence of tramadol users, annual supply days and mean daily dose of ...
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Can authorities appreciably enhance the prescribing of oral generic risperidone to conserve resources? : findings from across Europe and their implications
... Table 5 Percentage utilisation of oral generic risperidone versus total risperidone DDD basis and percentage reduction in expenditure per defined daily dose for oral generic risperidone [r] ...
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Recommendations for national registers of medicinal products with validated ATC codes and DDD values
... Since 1981, the WHO Regional Office for Europe has recommended the ATC (Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical) classification system and the DDD (Defined Daily Dose) as the standard for medici[r] ...
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The use of corticosteroids in patients with COPD or asthma does not decrease lung squamous cell carcinoma
... prescribed daily dose, and the num- ber of days ...The defined daily dose (DDD) recommended by the World Health Organization is a unit for measuring a prescribed amount of drug to ...
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From prescription drug purchases to drug use periods – a second generation method (PRE2DUP)
... Starting from the 1990’s, electronic data on prescription drug purchases have been collected in the Nordic countries [1] and registers have been widely used in recent medical research [2]. These registers enable the ...
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Antibiotic consumption in laboratory confirmed vs. non-confirmed bloodstream infections among very low birth weight neonates in Poland
... population. Defined daily dose (DDD), an inter- national standard measure used for drug consumption assessment, is a technical unit of measurement which reflects the average maintenance dose ...
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Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in elective surgeries in Iran
... preservation dose per day for a drug used for its main indication in ...The defined daily dose is a unit of measurement and does not nec- essarily reflect the recommended or Pre- scribed ...
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Acquisition and clearance of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii on healthy young adults concurrently burned in a dust explosion in Taiwan: the implication for antimicrobial stewardship
... We defined the DOT as previously described ...on defined daily dose (DDD) and DDD per 1000 patient- days (DDD/1000PD) between the cases and the ...
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Access to innovative cancer medicines in a middle-income country - the case of Mexico
... Background: Cancer has become the third cause of death in Mexico. Treatment for cancer is often complex and lengthy. New and better medicines enter the market at high prices, which may limit access. Like most Latin ...
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Adverse drug reactions associated with six commonly used antiepileptic drugs in southern China from 2003 to 2015
... DDD: Defined daily dose; DHS: Drug hypersensitivity syndrome; DRESS: Drug reactions with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms; ELFURS: Epilepsy Long-term Follow Up Registry Study; FAHWMU: First ...
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Prevention of nosocomial infections in critically ill patients with lactoferrin (PREVAIL study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... DDD: Defined daily dose; hLF: Human lactoferrin; ICU: Intensive care unit; IL: Interleukin; KGH: Kingston General Hospital; LF: Lactoferrin; OR: Odds ratio; PCT: Procalcitonin; RCT: Randomized ...
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Evaluation of Candida bloodstream infection and antifungal utilization in a tertiary care hospital
... the Defined Daily Dose (DDD), but there are others such as: days of therapy (DOT), Prescribed Daily Dose (PDD), and Recommended Daily Dose (RDD), which are also being used ...
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Antipsychotic Prescribing Pattern in Elderly Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
... prescribed daily doses with the maximum daily dose we have observed that the prescribed daily doses for the elderly patients were well within the maximum daily dose of the drugs ...
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Considerations for using minocycline vs doxycycline for treatment of canine heartworm disease
... Results: Published reports from the Anti-Wolbachia Consortium (A-WOL) indicate superior in vitro activity of minocycline over doxycycline. Studies performed in mouse models to measure anti-Wolbachia activity showed that ...
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Better retention of Malaysian opiate dependents treated with high dose methadone in methadone maintenance therapy
... methadone doses because of fear for ethnic difference that would put patients at risks for toxicity. They will not admit their fears with methadone (and all opiates actually!) just for the simple reason that methadone is ...
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Vol 25, No 4 (2015)
... We conducted this study because of the conflicting results of studies on alternate day dosing regimen and also no randomized controlled trial has been conducted before, comparing these different low-dose regimens ...
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