Factors affecting fitness to drive include:  The particular medications being used, their effects and duration of action, and interactions between medications used in combination.  Dose and time of administration in relation to driving.  Whether use is regular or occasional – regular use will result in some tolerance but possibly also withdrawal. The effect of tolerance depends on the type o...

The Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) provides outpatient prescription drug coverage for nearly one-half million State residents 65 years of age or over with income under $15,000 per year. A description of the PACE program is provided herein, along with data and multivariate results relating to the demographic characteristics of PACE beneficiaries, duration ...

Issue Brief prepared by Nancy Weiland Carpenter, an independent health care consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Simon Kedikoglou, a physician from Greece and degree candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Background: This study was aimed to evaluate the orthopedists’ prescription pattern for outpatients referred to private clinics in Kerman province, Iran. Methods: In this study a total of 59,613 outpatients’ prescriptions issued by orthopedists contracting with Iran Health insurance organization and Iran Social Security Organization from the 1st May...

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 ...

Aaron Kesselheim and colleagues examine potential strategies to promote greater prescribing of generic drugs and follow-on biologics.