Drug Prescriptions

08/31/2022 - "Critical care pharmacists play an important role in ICU patient care, with evidence showing reductions in drug prescribing errors, adverse drug events and costs, as well as improvement in clinical outcomes, such as mortality and length of ICU stay. "
04/01/2020 - "This pharmacovigilance study was conducted in Amravati region of central India to identify the nature and prevalence of adverse drug reactions, which will be helpful for better drug prescription practice and management of diseases. "
11/01/2001 - "The article goes into three main issues: the production of evidence about efficacy of drugs, their safety profile through the collection of data about adverse drug reactions and the appropriateness of drug prescription."
01/01/2012 - "Initial empirical studies and pilot implementations seem to indicate that generic safe and effective multi-drug prescription principles could be defined and reused to reduce adverse drug events and to support compliance with medical guidelines and drug formularies. "
01/01/2024 - "Knowledge about the epidemiology and the frequency of adverse drug reactions may be helpful in increasing the awareness of physicians for correct and rational drug prescriptions, which can reduce unnecessary hospital referrals and treatment costs."

12/01/2020 - "P4P programs may be effective in increasing evidence-based cancer drug prescribing, but may not yield cost savings."
01/01/2021 - "The ability to account for comorbidity when estimating survival in a population diagnosed with cancer could be improved by using a drug comorbidity index based on filled drug prescriptions. "
01/01/2022 - "These studies evaluated the sustainability of adherence to CPGs related to drug prescribing, disease management, cancer screening, and hand hygiene in primary care. "
01/01/2017 - "Among the 106 patients included in this study, polypharmacy was present in 60.4% of cases, potentially inappropriate drug prescription in 63.1% and drug interactions in 16% of case, of which 47% involved anti-cancer treatments. "
05/01/2016 - "This study aims to determine the numbers of patients with advanced cancer receiving polypharmacy at the end of their lives and analyze differences in drug prescription at a general oncology ward and a dedicated palliative care ward. "

01/01/2021 - "Changes in Drug Prescribing Practices Are Associated With Improved Outcomes in Patients With Dementia in Sweden: Experience from the Swedish Dementia Registry 2008-2017."
09/01/2023 - "Over the ten-year study period, a significant increase occurred in the average number of FP visits, all-type drug prescriptions, and dementia-specific drug prescriptions (all p <.001). "
01/01/2022 - "Drug prescriptions and dementia incidence: a medication-wide association study of 17000 dementia cases among half a million participants."
01/01/2021 - "An observational longitudinal cohort study (data from the Resource Use and Disease Course in Dementia-Nursing Home study) designed to examine the course of dementia, psychiatric and somatic diseases, and drug prescriptions in NH patients during the first 6 months after admission. "
01/01/2019 - "The objective of this study was to provide contemporary sex-stratified evidence on patterns of ChEI use by community-dwelling older adults with dementia to inform opportunities to optimize drug prescribing. "

01/01/2015 - "Our findings suggest that asthma care for children in Japan can be improved through changes in drug prescriptions. "
01/01/2019 - "Aims of the present study were to assess drug prescriptions for asthma by GPs and to evaluate prescriptive adherence to GINA guidelines (GL) and its relationship with disease control in real life. "
01/01/2017 - "Along this line, the purpose of this study was to investigate the level of asthma control in patients attending the GP office for different reasons, either for renewal of drug prescription or for worsening of asthma symptoms. "
10/01/2013 - "The study showed a high incidence and prevalence of asthma drug use with a poor adherence to guidelines for rational drug prescribing. "
04/01/2012 - "This study was designed to evaluate a self-reported drug prescribing pattern for asthma among Nigerian doctors in general practice. "

09/01/1993 - "A study is made of drug prescriptions associated with non-complicated arterial hypertension in a rural setting. "
01/01/2021 - "Treated hypertension was present in 245 (78%) patients; 288 (91%) patients had BP-lowering drug prescriptions (2.1 ± 1.3 medications at baseline). "
11/01/2020 - "Clinical data, drug prescriptions, and laboratory investigations were collected for individual patients with diagnosed hypertension on admission. "
07/01/2019 - "All the hypertension algorithms were based on the drug prescription database, except for one algorithm that also used the hospital discharge records and the exemption from co-payment database. "
01/01/2019 - "There was a reluctance by physicians to task share hypertension diagnosis, drug prescribing and assessing cardiovascular risk to nurses. "