OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of antihypertensive step therapy on prescription drug utilization and spending, and other medical care utilization and spending. STUDY DESIGN Pre/post design. METHODS Employers who had implemented step therapy were compared with employers who had not implemented step therapy. Data were drawn from the 2003 through 2006 MarketScan Research Databases. The study...

In the recent years, nurses haven't contributed much time to research (1). Evidence based medicine is becoming more and more popular, and it depends on the nurse's attitudes and knowledge towards research (2-4). Without studying the nurse's attitudes towards research, it won't be possible to determine if the findings of the researches are used to improve practice or not (5). The aim of this stu...

in the recent years, nurses haven't contributed much time to research (1). evidence based medicine is becoming more and more popular, and it depends on the nurse's attitudes and knowledge towards research (2-4). without studying the nurse's attitudes towards research, it won't be possible to determine if the findings of the researches are used to improve practice or not (5)....

The menace of cervical cancer has reached an alarming rate. There are more than 450.000cases of cervical cancer yearly, with mortality rate of about 50%. This deadly cancer is causedby human papillomavirus (HPV), mainly subtypes 16 and 18. The pharmaceutical industryhas produced drug for combating the virus, known as SAHA (suberoylanilide hydroxamicacid). It inhibits class II HDAC Homo sapiens ...

Legislative and regulatory efforts to address controlled substance diversion and overuse of narcotics are affecting prescription drug utilization and patient care. These initiatives can influence formulary drug selection, prior authorization procedures, and drug utilization strategies.

BACKGROUND Older people (aged 65 years and above) consume more analgesics compared with other age groups. Because of the aging of the New Zealand population, it is important to ascertain the trends of analgesic use at a population-level. OBJECTIVE The aim of this population-based study was to describe and characterize the utilization of analgesic medicines in older people in New Zealand from ...

Adverse drug reactions are a common and important complication of drug therapy in children. Over the past decade it has become increasingly apparent that genetically controlled variations in drug disposition and response are important determinants of adverse events for many important adverse events associated with drug therapy in children. While this research has been difficult to conduct over ...

Thunander Sundbom, L. 2017. The influence of gender and depression on drug utilization. Pharmacoepidemiological research in Sweden. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Pharmacy 238. 67 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0088-7. Background Drug use has increased over recent decades, and is especially great among women and among p...

Drug utilization has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the „marketing, distribution, prescription and the use of drugs in a society, with a special emphasis on the resulting medical, social, and economic consequences“ . Drug utilization studies are usually aimed at drug use-related problem detection and quantification. These studies may be quantitative (with the objective t...