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Dyspepsia Management in a Resource Poor Setting

BACKGROUND Dyspepsia has a significant impact on the quality of life of the sufferer, and results in enormous societal costs, either due to direct medical costs for physician visits, diagnostic tests, medications, or indirect costs from absenteeism or reduced productivity at work. It is therefore important to explore the management options available, especially in a resource poor setting like N...

A Pragmatic Approach to Superwarfarin Intoxication in a Resource Constraint Setting; a Case Report

Hidden altruism in a real-world setting

Concerns for reputation can promote cooperative behaviour. Individuals that behave cooperatively stand to benefit if they gain in influence, status or are more likely to be chosen as interaction partners by others. Most theoretical and empirical models of cooperation predict that image score will increase with cooperative contributions. Individuals are therefore expected to make higher contribu...

Abatacept used in combination with non-methotrexate disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: a descriptive analysis of data from interventional trials and the real-world setting

BACKGROUND Methotrexate (MTX) remains the anchor drug in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment, but is poorly tolerated or contraindicated in some patients. There is a wealth of data supporting the use of abatacept in combination with MTX, but data on alternative conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (csDMARD) combinations with abatacept are scarce. METHODS In this post-ho...

Drugs: Real World Outcomes

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Drugs: Real World Outcomes, the latest offering from Adis that targets research involving the use of real-world data. We all know that the gold standard in research is the randomized controlled clinical trial; however, we all also know that these trials by the nature of their design fail to inform clinicians on many fronts. While they provide vital con...