When comparing the average citation impact of research groups, universities and countries, field normalisation reduces the influence of discipline and time. Confidence intervals for these indicators can help with attempts to infer whether differences between sets of publications are due to chance factors. Although both bootstrapping and formulae have been proposed for these, their accuracy is u...

background we aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians’ drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse.   methods we applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians’ prescription claims. it involved 5 ste...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of the National Essential Medicines Scheme (NEMS) with respect to urban-rural inequalities regarding drug prescriptions in primary care facilities. METHODS A stratified two-stage random sampling strategy was used to sample 23,040 prescriptions from 192 primary care facilities from 2009 to 2010. Difference-in-Difference (DID) analyses were performed to test the a...

Hospitals should follow the National Formulary when prescribing medications. In accordance with Formulary, percentage of drug prescriptions in a hospital must be at least 80%, according to health service quality indicator standard number 30 2022 about prescriptions. One West Nusa Tenggara Province's class C hospitals, Sumbawa Regional General Hospital treats patients Health Insurance (NHI), who...

BACKGROUND Oral corticosteroid prescriptions are often used in clinical studies as an indicator of asthma exacerbations. However, there is rarely the ability to link a prescription to its associated diagnosis. The objective of this study was to characterize patterns of oral corticosteroid prescription orders for asthma patients using an electronic health record database, which links each prescr...

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...

OBJECTIVES In France, the public reporting of antibiotic policies in hospitals has been mandatory since 2007. Consequently, all hospitals provide to the Ministry of Health an annual follow-up of antibiotic policy. This study aimed at identifying antibiotic policy measures related to a lower antibiotic consumption. METHODS Data on antibiotic policy were extracted from the 2007 infection contro...

Direct to consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertising is one of the fastest growing categories of advertising. Expenditures have increased from about $25 million in 1992 to nearly $2 billion in 1999. Given strong evidence of consumer-driven demand for advertised prescription drugs, research was conducted to assess the extent to which DTC prescription drug advertising provides consumers with th...