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These results do not provide strong support for an association between NSAIDs and LUTS. However, the associations between over-the-counter NSAID use and certain urologic symptoms, particularly among women with arthritis, and the potential mechanisms involved should be evaluated in future studies....
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PMID: 21357657
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To evaluate the effectiveness of standardized, patient-centered label (PCL) instructions to improve comprehension of prescription drug use compared with typical instructions.
A total of 500 adult patients recruited from 2 academic and 2 community primary care clinics in Chicago, IL and Shreveport, L...
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PMID: 21150800
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This study aimed to evaluate the opinions and practices of general dentists in Connecticut regarding dental care during pregnancy. A survey was mailed to Connecticut general dentists to acquire data regarding age, gender, training, type of practice, years in practice, payment types a...
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PMID: 21613028
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We are revising our regulations to incorporate changes to the Medicare prescription drug coverage low-income subsidy (Extra Help) program made by the Affordable Care Act which was enacted on March 23, 2010. Under our interpretation of section 3304 of the Affordable Care Act and this interim final ru...
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PMID: 21261125
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These results indicate that only a minority of all residents were treated with potentially inappropriate or potentially harmful drug combinations. However, the relatively high rate of prescriptions for loop diuretics is a matter of potential concern in this vulnerable group of patients.
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PMID: 21108153
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Beginning January 1, 2006, the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit shifted drug coverage from Medicaid to the new Medicare Part D program for patients who were eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits ("dual-eligibles"). These patients were randomly assigned to a private Part D plan an...
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PMID: 21190639
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We investigated the association between prescription H1 antihistamine use and obesity in adults using data from the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Adults taking prescription H1 antihistamines were matched by age and gender with controls and compared on the basis...
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PMID: 20706200
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We selected 10,002 drivers involved in a traffic accident or violation between 2007 and 2008 in Shanghai, Suzhou and Wuxi. We checked for the presence of psychoactive drugs from blood samples using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS). Of the 10,002 drivers, 10.5% tested positiv...
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PMID: 20728679
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To examine the extent of home-kept prescription drugs in the general population and to identify the predictors for a higher number of prescription drugs kept in people's homes.
The study included a random stratified sample of 1,000 Slovenian inhabitants. Participants answered a self-administered que...
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PMID: 20979928
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The Gesundheitsfonds (national health fund) was established in Germany on January 1st, 2009, in combination with the morbidity-based risk structure equalization (RSA) in order to manage the cash flow between the statutory health insurances. The RSA equalizes income differences due to the varying lev...
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PMID: 21046057
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These results support the company's direction in health benefit design although further confirmation is needed. Ongoing quality improvement processes are discussed, as are implications for implementing EBD....
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PMID: 20881621
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We evaluated associations between errors of commission and omission, copayment status between errors of commission and omission, and associations between errors of commission in primary and secondary sections of the drug profiles.
Demographics of study patients are similar to previously published re...
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PMID: 20964475
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We compared outpatient prescription use, spending, and quality of care across 135 VA medical centers (VAMCs) in fiscal year 2008, including 2.3 million patients dispensed lipid-lowering medications and 981,031 patients dispensed diabetes medications. At each facility, we calculated VAMC-level cost p...
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PMID: 20964470
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Young people have long been confronted with choices about whether to use alcohol and other drugs. Today, however, they are having to make those decisions at a younger age, and they are encountering substances that were unheard of by members of their parents' generation. This article describes trends...
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PMID: 20957927
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Pharmacists have an important role in detecting, preventing, and solving prescription problems, which if left unresolved, may pose a risk of harming the patient.
The aim was to examine prescription problems detected at pharmacies in Sweden, where pharmacists consider it necessary to contact the pres...
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PMID: 20813331
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Qualitative research has shown that gaining control of medicine treatment and increased feelings of safety and empowerment are central concepts in patients' perceptions of a pharmaceutical care (PC) service provided in Sweden. However, little is known about any unique differences among patients rece...
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PMID: 20813332
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Prescription drug abuse is a significant and growing health and socio-economical problem in the US and the world. According to the 2008 UN World Drug Report, the number of people who have consumed an illicit drug at least once in 2006/2007 reached 240 million, roughly 6% of the world...
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PMID: 21054261
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Our understanding of the use of emergency departments (EDs) and physician offices for the management of dental problems is limited. We undertook this study to examine whether there are differences in their use by low-income White and minority adults as compared with higher-income adults.
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PMID: 20726944
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There would be racial and ethnic disparities in meeting MTM eligibility criteria. Future research is warranted to confirm the findings using data after MTM implementation....
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PMID: 20500223
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Our findings are consistent with the notion that CDHP benefit designs affect decisions that are at the discretion of the consumer, such as whether to fill or refill a prescription, but have less effect on care decisions that are more at the discretion of the provider....
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PMID: 20528988
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The results of a logistic regression analysis indicated a significant association between past-year alcohol consumption and the likelihood of past-year smoking initiation after controlling for respondent race, the past-year use of marijuana, illicit drug use, and prescription drug use. CONCLUSIONS A...
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PMID: 20560839
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Prescribers seek to provide their patients with access to the latest innovations in medicine to maximize their health status. When a new drug comes to market, it often has not been as widely tested as other available therapies, and its effectiveness and safety cannot be fully evaluated. To address t...
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PMID: 20590071
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Our objectives were to quantify and describe adverse drug-related events (ADREs) as reported by patients triaged as Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale scores 3, 4 or 5, discharged from the ED with prescriptions.
This prospective observational study was a planned substudy of a larg...
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PMID: 20650026
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We investigated the prescription quality and prescribing trends of private clinicians in Nablus governorate, Palestine. A total of 363 prescriptions were collected from a random sample of 36 community pharmacies over a study period of 288 working hours. Data regarding elements in the prescription an...
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PMID: 20799538
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We identified all Medicare beneficiaries > or =65 years old who had been hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or coronary revascularization from 1995 to 2004 and participated in 1 of 2 government-sponsored medication benefit programs. Patients with a history of AF before and during hospitali...
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PMID: 20538110
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We will freeze copayments at the current rate for veterans in VA's health care system enrollment priority categories 2 through 6 and increase copayments as required by the current regulation only for veterans in priority categories 7 and 8. Thereafter, if VA does not prescribe a new methodology for...
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PMID: 20533616
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We discuss advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to confounder control in healthcare databases. In settings where considerable uncertainty surrounds the data or the causal mechanisms underlying the treatment assignment and outcome process, we suggest that researchers report a panel of...
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PMID: 20473199
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Integrated data on the NH population have great potential for CE research among frail elderly persons, if methodological and measurement challenges can be adequately addressed....
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PMID: 20473191
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Jang Hoon Lee,
Dong Heon Yang,
Hun Sik Park,
Yongkeun Cho,
Myung Ho Jeong,
Young Jo Kim,
Kee-Sik Kim,
Seung Ho Hur,
In Whan Seong,
Taek Jong Hong,
Myeong Chan Cho,
Chong Jin Kim,
Jae-Eun Jun,
Wee-Hyun Park,
Shung Chull Chae and
Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry Investigators
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The optimal evidence-based medical therapy is prescribed at suboptimal rates, particularly in patients with high-risk features. New educational strategies are needed to increase the use of these secondary preventive medical therapies.
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PMID: 20569714
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The vast majority of energy necessary for cellular function is produced in mitochondria. Free-radical production and apoptosis are other critical mitochondrial functions. The complex structure, electrochemical properties of the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM), and genetic control from both mitoch...
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PMID: 20818734
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This issue brief contrasts prescription drug access, affordability, and costs in the United States with six other high-income countries, drawing from Commonwealth Fund survey data of patient experiences as well as international spending and pricing data. The analysis reveals that Americans, particul...
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PMID: 20614652
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All patients were considered low literacy (never attended school or grade 6 education or less). The preference of pictographs was significantly different between patients and medical staff for each of the 12 sets of pictographs. Comprehension was significantly different between patients and medical...
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PMID: 20518586
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To identify the types of adverse events associated with psychotropic treatment in African American children and adolescents, analyses were performed using a retrospective cohort design evaluating medical and pharmacy claims from South Carolina's Medicaid program covering outpatient and inpatient med...
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PMID: 20533772
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We estimate the prevalence of nonmedical prescription drug (NMPD) use and test social learning theory as an explanation for NMPD use based upon data from a large pilot study. Data were collected from 465 college students at a Midwestern university in the USA using a self-administered questionnaire....
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PMID: 20397873
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