Inability of Primary Care Providers to Predict Medication Fulfillment of New Prescriptions

Inappropriateness of Medication Prescriptions to Elderly Patients in the Primary Care Setting: A Systematic Review

BACKGROUND Inappropriate medication prescription is a common cause of preventable adverse drug events among elderly persons in the primary care setting. OBJECTIVE The aim of this systematic review is to quantify the extent of inappropriate prescription to elderly persons in the primary care setting. METHODS We systematically searched Ovid-Medline and Ovid-EMBASE from 1950 and 1980 respectiv...

Challenges of Payment System to Primary Health Care Providers in Iranian Comprehensive Health Centers

Background and purpose: The primary health care program for the suburbs is being implemented in Iran after the Health Transformation Plan where services are delivered with the priority of outsourcing and purchasing services from non-governmental sectors. In this program, different payment methods have been used. This study aimed at addressing the challenges associated with payments made to urba...

HIV management returning to primary care providers.

A 32-year old uninsured woman, living in a rural town in the Deep South, presents to the emergency room at a local hospital with complaints of cough and fever. She is diagnosed with pneumonia and given a prescription for an antibiotic. It takes a few days to raise the money for the prescription but she eventually fills it and improves with treatment. Over the next several months, she goes to th...

Unfilled prescriptions in pediatric primary care.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Filling a prescription is the important first step in medication adherence, but has not been studied in pediatric primary care. The objective of this study was to use claims data to determine the rate of unfilled prescriptions in pediatric primary care and examine factors associated with prescription filling. METHODS This retrospective observational study of pediatri...

Inability to predict relapse in acute asthma.