The article presents the results of a study legal regulation medicines in accordance with statement on January 1, 2019 Federal Project Creation Unified Digital Circuit Health Care basis State Information System. project involves pharmacy organizations, which are going to issuance prescription drugs form an electronic document. development System will require lot organizational and methodologica...

background and aims. irrational prescription of antibiotics by clinicians might lead to drug resistance. clinicians do prescribe antibiotics for either prophylactic or therapeutic reasons. the decision of when and what to prescribe leaves room for misuse and therefore it is imperative to continuously monitor knowledge and pattern of prescription. the aim of the present study was to determine th...

background health literacy presents an enormous challenge in the delivery of effective healthcare and quality outcomes. we evaluated the impact of low health literacy (lhl) on healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditure.   methods database analysis used medical expenditure panel survey (meps) from 2005-2008 which provides nationally representative estimates of healthcare utilization and e...

BACKGROUND Errors in the prescription and transcription of medications in pediatric services is a source of adverse events that can be prevented. AIM To determine and compare the frequency of prescription and transcription errors for intravenous drugs in four pediatric services in a regional general hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cross sectional analysis of a probabilistic sample of 500 pre...

The importance of prescription drugs to modern medical practice, coupled with their increasing costs, has strengthened imperatives for national health policies that ensure safety and quality, facilitate affordable access, and promote rational use. Australia has made universal and affordable prescription drug coverage a priority for decades, within a policy framework that emphasizes equity and i...

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...

In 2017, an estimated 85% of Medicare Part D regional prescription drug plans will offer preferred pharmacy networks (Fein, 2016). Prescription plans other than Medicare Part D have also been moving to preferred networks. A preferred pharmacy network offers patients a choice of pharmacies but provides financial incentives to use a preferred pharmacy. It is not clear whether the plans choose pre...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and illustrate the use of statistical process control (SPC) for prospective monitoring and detection of regional changes in prescription opioid abuse rates. METHODS A demonstration project was conducted by applying several types of SPC charts to Louisiana TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) applicant self-reported opioid illicit use data collected during 21...

1063 May 2014 I N this issue of ANesthesiology, Bateman et al.1 present an analysis of opioid prescription practices from a large U.s. private insurance database. The information derived from the database “inVision” for Data Mart is constructed from medical and prescription information from privately insured people in the United states. The authors identified a surprisingly high incidence of op...