Anaesthesia drug cost, control and utilization in Canada

Anaesthesia drug cost, control and utilization in Canada.

PURPOSE To investigate the attitudes of senior anaesthetists toward issues of anaesthesia drug cost control, utilization, and education, and to determine patterns of drug use of common clinical scenarios. METHODS A questionnaire mailed to heads of anaesthesia departments in all large (> 200 beds) Canadian hospitals (n = 187). Data were analyzed with chi-square and t tests; P < 0.05 was consid...

Storage, utilization and cost of drug products in Palestinian households.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Appropriate storage and use of medications in households may decrease drug wastage and unnecessary hazard. The objective of this study was to investigate storage, utilization habits and cost of medications in households in Palestine. METHODS This is a cross sectional, anonymous, questionnaire-based study of 465 households in northern Palestine. The drug product invent...

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The influence of prescription drug insurance on psychotropic and non-psychotropic drug utilization in Canada.

Using 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey data, this paper examines the effect of public and private prescription drug insurance on the utilization of psychotropic and non-psychotropic drugs. It is found that prescription drug utilization is characterized by two stochastic regimes requiring use of latent class modelling framework. In many instances, results differ for the classes of high and ...

Cost-effectiveness of drug-eluting coronary stents in Quebec, Canada.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this investigation was to assess the incremental cost-effectiveness of replacing bare metal coronary stents (BMS) with drug-eluting stents (DES) in the Province of Quebec, Canada. METHODS The strategy used was a cost-effectiveness analysis from the perspective of the health-care provider, in the province of Quebec, Canada (population 7.5 million). The main outcome measur...