Drugs prescribing
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Despite efforts to enhance the quality of medication prescribing in outpatient settings, potentially inappropriate prescribing remains common, particularly in unscheduled settings where patients can present with infectious and pain-related complaints. Two of the most commonly prescribed medication classes in outpatient settings with frequent rates of potentially inappropriate prescribing include antibiotics and nonsteroidal anti-infammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
12p vishanshan 27-06-2024 1 1 Download
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Audit and feedback (A/F), which include initiatives like report cards, have an inconsistent impact on clinicians’ prescribing behavior. This may be attributable to their focus on aggregate prescribing measures, a one-sizefits-all approach, and the fact that A/F initiatives rarely engage with the clinicians they target.
8p vishanshan 27-06-2024 3 1 Download
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A description of our current understanding of antiepileptic drug use during pregnancy, this book includes chapters on the impact of seizures on the mother and developing child, changes in maternal physiology during pregnancy and its impact on drug disposition, and the pharmacokinetic differences between the various anti-seizure medications.
235p vimeyers 29-05-2024 7 2 Download
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Ebook Chemistry: An introduction for medical and health sciences provides students and practitioners with a clear, readable introduction to the chemical terms and concepts that are relevant to their study and practice. Assuming little prior knowledge of the subject the book describes and explains the chemistry underlying many of the most commonly prescribed drugs and medicines. It also includes information on chemical aspects of digestion and nutrition, oxidation, radioactivity and an overview of how chemicals fight disease.
273p vimeyers 29-05-2024 3 2 Download
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Ebook "Prescribing by numbers: Drugs and the definition of disease" highlights the complex historical role of pharmaceuticals in the transformation of disease categories. Greene narrates the expanding definition of the three principal cardiovascular risk factors—hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol—each intersecting with the career of a particular pharmaceutical agent.
337p tracanhphuonghoa1007 22-04-2024 4 2 Download
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Only a small fraction of patients respond to the drug prescribed to treat their disease, which means that most are at risk of unnecessary exposure to side effects through ineffective drugs. This inter-individual variation in drug response is driven by differences in gene interactions caused by each patient’s genetic background, environmental exposures, and the proportions of specific cell types involved in disease.
15p vibransone 28-03-2024 4 2 Download
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Describing realworld results of the Heart Failure Management Program at Hue Central Hospital; Surveying the current status of prescribing drugs according to guidelines to treat heart failure in the program.
7p vicwell 06-03-2024 7 2 Download
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The objective of this study is to identify the types and quantities of antidepressant drugs prescribed and received, as well as to assess the outcomes of treatment for depressed patients who received outpatient care at Can Tho Psychiatric Hospital between 2022 and 2023.
6p vispacex 16-11-2023 4 2 Download
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"Analysis on drug interactions in the prescription outpatient treatment at Ben Cat town, Binh Duong province" through a survey of drug interactions occurring during outpatient prescribing at Ben Cat Town Medical Center in the first 6 months of 2022 and according to the survey results of 400 prescriptions about number of drugs, number of diagnoses, rate of prescriptions with interactions and pairs of drugs with interactions, the rate of prescriptions with interactions looked up by Drug.com and Medscape.com is 13.25% and 14%, respectively.
8p giangnhanly 02-10-2023 2 1 Download
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Amiodarone has been widely used for the treatment of various arrhythmias. It is a potent P450 inhibitor leading to interaction with many commonly prescribed drugs. Also, due to its long half-life, lipophilicity, and broad tissue distribution, it can cause a wide range of toxicities.
5p viintuit 26-09-2023 1 0 Download
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Part 1 book "Fundamentals of pharmacology for veterinary technicians" includes content: A brief history of veterinary pharmacology; veterinary drug development and control principles and methods of drug administration, pharmacokinetics, systems of measurement in veterinary pharmacology, veterinary drug use, prescribing, acquisition, and pharmacy management, drugs affecting the nervous system,... and other contents.
475p oursky05 20-09-2023 3 2 Download
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Part 2 book "Paediatric nephrology" includes content: Ifections and the kidney; renal cystic diseases and ciliopathies; renal dysplasia and other manifestations in syndr mic diseases; renal tumours; hypertension; acute kidney injury; chronic kidney disease; peritoneal dialysis in end stage kidney disease; extracorporeal treatment; transplantation, drug prescribing, psychosocial issues.
374p oursky04 05-09-2023 7 0 Download
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Electronic trigger detection tools hold promise to reduce Adverse drug event (ADEs) through efficiencies of scale and real-time reporting. We hypothesized that such a tool could automatically detect medication dosing errors as well as manage and evaluate dosing rule modifications.
8p visteverogers 24-06-2023 5 2 Download
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To examine medication errors potentially related to computerized prescriber order entry (CPOE) and refine a previously published taxonomy to classify them. We reviewed all patient safety medication reports that occurred in the medication ordering phase from 6 sites participating in a United States Food and Drug Administration–sponsored project examining CPOE safety.
7p visteverogers 24-06-2023 4 2 Download
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Hospitalized patients have a high prevalence of prolonged QTc and are a high-risk population for Torsades de Pointes (TdP). One modifiable risk factor for TdP is the use of QT prolonging drugs. Electronically alerting providers who are ordering QT prolonging drugs in at-risk patients may help to achieve safer prescribing practices.
4p visteverogers 24-06-2023 7 3 Download
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To test associations between several opioid prescribing policy interventions and changes in early (acute/subacute) high-risk opioid prescribing practices. Several state-level opioid prescribing policies were significantly associated with safer workers’ compensation-related opioid prescribing practices during the first 3 months after injury (acute/subacute phase), which should in turn reduce transition to chronic opioids and associated negative health outcomes.
12p vigamora 25-05-2023 4 2 Download
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Anaplastic lymphoma kinase tyrosine kinase inhibitors are standard therapeutic agents prescribed for anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive non-small cell lung cancer, and treatment with these agents has been shown to contribute to long-term survival in patients.
6p vigamora 23-05-2023 3 2 Download
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Mirtazapine is a frequently prescribed psychotropic drug for depression in older age. It is considered safe and has a side-effect profile uniquely favorable to an older person affected by reduced appetite, difficulty main‑taining body weight, or insomnia.
3p vidoctorstrange 06-05-2023 6 2 Download
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Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are one of the most commonly prescribed pharmacological groups. Their high prevalence and duration of use are of important health concern due to the risk they can cause to patients.
8p viferrari 28-11-2022 9 2 Download
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The present study adds to this body of knowledge through an exploration of health literacy competencies related to herbal and food supplement consumption to determine what competency would be most problematic among Thai people. The study also investigated the influence of demographic and socio-economic factors on the most problematic health literacy competency on herbal and food supplements.
10p viferrari 28-11-2022 9 2 Download