BACKGROUND Anticoagulation with warfarin following bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement (BMVR) is recommended by multiple practice guidelines. We assessed practice variability and patient characteristics associated with warfarin prescription following BMVR. METHODS We analyzed 7,637 patients in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database (January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2011) who were discharged ...

BACKGROUND Erectile dysfunction is a common condition, yet in the past most affected men did not seek medical treatment. OBJECTIVE To examine how sildenafil (Viagra), a new medication for the treatment of erectile dysfunction, has been incorporated into general medical practice. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study population consisted of all male members of a group-model Massachusetts health mai...

BACKGROUND The intensity of the use of antidepressants in large populations can nowadays relatively easily be estimated using databases encompassing prescription data. There are shortcomings when using prescription databases as they contain no clinical data on patient illness. Antidepressants are prescribed for different illnesses, thus information on the indications could help when interpretin...

One of the glaring gaps in Canada’s universal healthcare system is the low level of public financing of prescription drugs - 42.7% of total spending in 2018. At the federal level there is renewed interest in moving towards universal coverage, supported by a recently commissioned report on how to achieve it. It will take superb political navigation to extract Canadian ph...

PURPOSE Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) has been used as a curative and specific treatment of allergic diseases. However, no data on the prescription patterns of AIT in Korea is available. Therefore, we surveyed the prescription patterns of AIT by allergy specialists in Korea. METHODS We emailed a questionnaire on AIT prescription patterns to the 690 members of the Korean Academy of Asthma, Alle...

introduction: this study examines the antibiotic prescription in dentists participated in 9 th congress of iranian association of endodontists in esfahan/2006. materials and methods: a questionnaire for this cross sectional study was designed for evaluating the patterns of antibiotic prescription. it included some demographic information, clinical signs, and conditions in need for antibiotic an...

Background: Nowadays pharmacists should be involved in patients care and providing pharmaceutical care more than before, but still there is a gap between standard of care and pharmacy practice in pharmacies. Objective: In this study we aimed at evaluating the pharmacists experiences and attitudes about ethical professional practice in pharmacies. Setting: The study was conducted in the Tehran ...

Technological change has led to the proceduralisation of flight deck work. Yet accidents attributable to pilot error still occur. CSCW studies of work suggest work as prescribed does not always reflect work as practised. While one might expect this to be less true of safety critical settings like the flight deck, the case studies we present provide support for this distinction. We present two r...