The drug cost gap and the diagnosis-prescription connection.

The Health Policy and Management (HPAM) Gap- From Diagnosis to Prescription: A Response to Recent Commentaries

بررسی شاخص های تجویز نسخ پزشکان استان خراسان جنوبی در سال 1393

Background and Aim:  Drug prescription is an important part of pharmacotherapy; therefore, inattention to the principle of drug prescription can cause problems such as incorrect treatment, unsuccessful or incomplete, and force higher cost to patients and society. While prescribing and rational use of drugs can prevent the loss of national capital and community health promotion through imp...

Investigating Dental Prescribing Errors among General Dental Practitioners of Karaj In 2018

Background: Prescribing medication and prescribing was the last stage of communication between doctor and patient, the quality of which plays an important role in achieving the desired treatment outcome. This study aimed to investigate prescription behavior of dentists and common prescription errors by dentists in Karaj Province in 2018. Methods: In this study, 1254 prescriptions by dentists in...

Evaluation of faculty and non-faculty physicians’ medication errors in outpatients’ prescriptions in Shiraz, Iran

Aim: This study was aimed at finding the occurrence rate of prescription errors in the outpatients' prescriptions written by faculty and non-faculty physicians practicing in Shiraz, Iran. Method: In this cross-sectional study 2000 outpatient prescriptions were randomly collected from pharmacies affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) and social security insurance in Shiraz,...

Medicare beneficiaries' knowledge of Part D prescription drug program benefits and responses to drug costs.

CONTEXT Medicare Part D drug benefits include substantial cost sharing. OBJECTIVE To determine beneficiaries' knowledge of benefits and cost responses. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Telephone interviews were conducted in 2007 in a stratified random sample of community-dwelling Kaiser Permanente-Northern California Medicare Advantage beneficiaries aged 65 years or older, with a gap in co...