Finally, in addition to medical training and drug sales promotion, there are many other factors which influence the general practitioner in his attitudes towards drug therapy. Amongst these are the processes of socialization and professionalization which the young general practitioner undergoes as he moves through his medical training and out into general practice. These are the various agencie...

OBJECTIVE To assess nurse practitioners' interactions with pharmaceutical industry promotional activities and their perception of information reliability and self-reported prescribing behaviors. STUDY DESIGN Self-administered online survey. METHODS A nationally randomized sample of nurse practitioner prescribers was surveyed. Eligibility criteria included current clinical practice and licen...

PURPOSE The current epidemic of prescription opioid abuse and misuse in the United States is discussed, with an emphasis on the pharmacist's role in ensuring safe and effective opioid use. SUMMARY U.S. sales of prescription opioids increased fourfold from 1999 to 2010, with an alarming rise in deaths and emergency department visits associated with the use of fentanyl, hydrocodone, oxycodone, ...

The sales proceeds are the most important factors for keeping alive profitable companies. So sales and budget sales are considered as important parameters influencing all other decision variables in an organization. Therefore, poor forecasting can lead to great loses in organization caused by inaccurate and non-comprehensive production and human resource planning. In this research a coherent so...

This paper is a case study on how pharmaceuticals are prescribed on the NHS in the UK. The paper discusses the modelling and forecasting of pharmaceutical life cycles, specifically around after the time of patent expiry. In this situation one of two things can occur the branded pharmaceutical sales remain high while the generic are low, the alternative is when the branded drug declines and stay...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) control is considered primarily a public health concern, and private sector TB treatment has attracted less attention. Thus, the size and characteristics of private sector TB drug sales remain largely unknown. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We used IMS Health data to analyze private TB drug consumption in 10 high burden countries (HBCs), after first mapping how we...

From Amazon.com to Zfurniture.com, the e-commerce industry is booming. Ecommerce, generally defined as transactions that involve the exchange of goods and services by electronic means [1] , is most commonly transacted via the Internet, a worldwide network of computers and other communications equipment linked by high-speed data lines and wireless systems. [2] The Internet and the World Wide Web...

What is the difference between 20 and 23? If you said three, you are off by millions—of dollars in sales, that is—at least from the perspective of Eisai, the manufacturer of donepezil (marketed as Aricept by Pfizer). A little context helps make the maths clearer. Donepezil, the biggest player in the lucrative market for Alzheimer’s disease treatments, was a blockbuster, with over $2bn in annual...

Countries that represent a small portion of overall drug spending have an incentive to pay low prices for a given drug, knowing that their share of drug spending is small enough not to adversely affect incentives for research and development. If, however, many countries use price controls, the aggregate harm for research incentives could be substantial. The US which accounts for 48% of global p...

A first fully humanized monoclonal antibody approved by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002 was Adalimumab. Clinical efficacy and safety of adalimumab has been assessed in various trials in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn's Disease, and ulcerative colitis. It is one of the major sales success among biological and still one of the gre...