Opioid overprescribing played a major role in the onset of American opioid epidemic. During COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare access had dramatic changes that potentially impacted high-risk prescribing among providers and seeking behaviors recipients. The study aims to assess impact pandemic on trends dispensing during 14 months before 21 after California. Analyzing data from California’s Controlle...

background measures taken over the past four years in greece to reduce pharmaceutical expenditure have led to significant price reductions for medicines, but have also changed patient cost-sharing rates for prescription drugs. this study attempts to capture the resulting increase in patients’ out-of-pocket (oop) expenses for prescription drugs during the 2011-2014 period.   methods the authors ...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding antibiotics of the general population. METHODS The study sample consisted of adult subjects who consulted general practitioners at health centers in Serbia and agreed to complete the questionnaire. A total of 668 questionnaires were distributed; 500 respondents completed the entire ques...

The main goal of this paper is to develop an empirical framework for evaluating the patient welfare benefits arising from pharmaceutical innovation. Extending previous studies of the welfare benefits from innovation (Trajtenberg, 1990; Hausman, 1996), this paper unpacks the separate choices made by physicians and patients in pharmaceutical decisionmaking and develops an estimable econometric mo...

The impact of an intervention program, measured by changes in the prescription of ORS, antibiotics and antidiarrheal drugs by those pharmacists and drugsellers after administering the proposed educational package was assessed. The results of the study indicated that, before the educational program started, ORS was prescribed by pharmacists for 31.4% and 15.7% of watery diarrhea and dysentery ep...

Monitoring (tracking and surveillance) of children's behavior is considered an essential parenting skill. Numerous studies show that well-monitored youths are less involved in delinquency and other normbreaking behaviors, and scholars conclude that parents should track their children more carefully. This study questions that conclusion. We point out that monitoring measures typically assess par...

We study the renormalization of Entanglement Entropy in holographic CFTs dual to Lovelock gravity. It is known that EE gravity given by Jacobson-Myers (JM) functional. As usual, due divergent Weyl factor Fefferman-Graham expansion boundary metric for Asymptotically AdS spaces, this entropy functional infinite. By considering Kounterterm procedure, which utilizes extrinsic counterterms order ren...

one of the most common and important therapeutic tools used by physicians is prescription. the use of digital systems in the health field has many benefits and significant impacts on the health system. one of these systems is digital prescription. in this article, first, we will review the existing infrastructure and work done in this area, and then with a new perspective on health issues, we w...