OBJECTIVE To evaluate drug use in 2 Dutch nursing homes (254 residents) by developing and evaluating prescribing indicators based on pharmacy prescription data. METHODS We evaluated the prescribing of benzodiazepines, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), ulcer-healing drugs, and diuretics. Prescribing indicators were used to identify prescribing that was potentially not in line with ...

drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. for this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from bou-ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

BACKGROUND Increasing attention is being paid to variations in the use of prescription drugs because their role in health care has grown to the point where their use can be considered a proxy for health system performance. Studies have shown that prescription drug use varies across regions in the US, UK, and Canada by more than would be predicted based on age and health status alone. In this pa...

Antibiotics represent the most widely prescribed therapeutic agents. The prevalence of drug prescription differs across age, with preschool children being most exposed to antibiotic drugs, especially in the community setting. A review with the aim to compare the profile of antibiotic drug prescription at the multinational, national and regional levels was performed. This overview of drug-utilis...

Let U ⊆ R be open and convex. We prove that every (not necessarily Lipschitz or strongly) convex function f : U → R can be approximated by real analytic convex functions, uniformly on all of U . We also show that C-fine approximation of convex functions by smooth (or real analytic) convex functions on R is possible in general if and only if d = 1. Nevertheless, for d ≥ 2 we give a characterizat...

Counterparty risk denotes the risk that a party defaults in a bilateral contract. This risk not only depends on the two parties involved, but also on the risk from various other contracts each of these parties holds. In rather informal markets, such as the OTC (over-the-counter) derivative market, institutions only report their aggregated quarterly risk exposure, but no details about their coun...

CONTEXT A decade of increasing antidepressant medication treatment for adolescents and corresponding declines in suicide rates raise the possibility that antidepressants have helped prevent youth suicide. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between regional changes in antidepressant medication treatment and suicide in adolescents from 1990 to 2000. DESIGN Analysis of prescription data fr...

introduction: since prescription is a way of communication between the pharmacist, physician and patient, inattention to its principles may result in mis-consumption or incomplete use of the medicine, drug interactions, and increased probable adverse effects. therefore, this research tried to investigate physicians' commitment to principles of prescription writing for outpatients insured by med...

Objective To evaluate current opioid prescribing patterns nationally and regionally across several northern New England states and compare with prescription data on an institutional level over a two-year period, between 2013 and 2014. Design, Setting, and Subjects The IMS Health National Prescription Audit (NPA) database was used to obtain prescription data from US retail pharmacies between 2...