the goal of this study is to identify the types of potentially inappropriate drugs prescribed by the medical specialists of isfahan province to elderly patients. a number of 31,254 randomly selected prescriptions from medical specialists of isfahan province were reviewed for elderly patients who were insured by the social security organization. three thousand and seven prescriptions were identi...

       The goal of this study is to identify the types of potentially inappropriate drugs prescribed by the medical specialists of Isfahan province to elderly patients. A number of 31,254 randomly selected prescriptions from medical specialists of Isfahan province were reviewed for elderly patients who were insured by the Social Security Organization. Three thousand and seven prescriptions were...

Objectives: Drug-drug interaction (DDI) occurs following the prescription of more than one drug. DDI and its associated factors in Indonesia’s country’s primary care have not been reported.
 Materials Methods: Through this descriptive cross-sectional study, we analysed incidence using Clinical-Based Drug Interaction Alert (CIDIA) alert system. Purposive research was carried out by analysin...

CONTEXT Although clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits of lipid-lowering therapy, little is known about how these drugs are prescribed or used in the general population. OBJECTIVE To estimate predictors of persistence with therapy for lipid-lowering drug regimens in typical populations of patients in the United States and Canada. DESIGN A cohort study defining all prescriptions fil...

Aims Pharmacogenetics (PGx) in the UK is currently implemented secondary care for a small group of high-risk medicines. However, most prescribing takes place primary care, with large medicines influenced by commonly occurring genetic variations. The goal this study to quantitatively estimate volumes impacted implementation population-level, pre-emptive pharmacogenetic screening programme nine g...

Background and purpose Off-label prescriptions for critically ill patients pose several ethical and legal dilemmas for intensive care unit (ICU) clinicians. Yet, few data are available on the prevalence of this practice in critical care environment in China. This nationwide survey was performed to evaluate the conditions of off-label prescriptions in ICU within China. Methods The survey was p...

OBJECTIVE Irrational pharmacotherapy is a widespread health care problem, and knowing the prescription practices of physicians at an institutional level can present solutions. This study aimed to investigate whether physicians' prescribing patterns showed differences at the level of the health care institution. MATERIALS AND METHODS Photocopies of 3201 prescriptions written at primary health ...

BACKGROUND Patient nonadherence to prescribed medication is common and limits the effectiveness of treatment for many conditions. Most adherence studies evaluate behavior only among patients who have filled a first prescription. The advent of electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems provides the opportunity to track initial prescriptions and identify nonadherence that may have previously ...

Introduction: Rational use of Drugs is the prescription and dispensation drugs to appropriate patients in doses, for required period at lowest cost them their community. Irrational refers inappropriate which include too many (polypharmacy), unnecessary overuse antibiotics injection where oral drug suffices. A step towards preventing irrational document it a study such as this, so that correctiv...

BACKGROUND/AIM The female gender appears to suffer from more adverse drug reactions (ADRs) than the male gender. So far, there has been no epidemiologic study analyzing gender-based differences in drug prescribing and its ADR risks. The aim of the present study was to establish a drug risk stratification adjusted to age, number of prescriptions and drug classes with respect to gender difference...