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Drug Prescriptions
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Hoping to reduce medication errors and contain health care costs, policy makers are promoting electronic prescribing through Medicare and Medicaid financial incentives. Many e-prescribing systems provide electronic access to important information--for example, medications prescribed by physicians in...
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PMID: 21545050
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We conducted a cohort study of women with RA with pregnancies using health care utilization data from 2002-2008. We examined the distribution of RA drugs by therapeutic classes, including nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)/coxibs, glucocorticoids, nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumati...
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PMID: 21557526
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Methylphenidate is a psychostimulant drug indicated for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Its abuse and diversion have been previously described in specific populations, such as students; however, few studies investigating abuse and diversion among the overall populati...
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PMID: 21476612
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To evaluate the association between the Drug Burden Index (DBI), a measure of a person's total exposure to anticholinergic and sedative medications that includes principles of dose-response and maximal effect and is associated with impaired physical function in community-dwelling older people, and fa...
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PMID: 21539525
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The rate of prescription opioid-related overdose death increased substantially in the United States over the past decade. Patterns of opioid prescribing may be related to risk of overdose mortality.
To examine the association of maximum prescribed daily opioid dose an...
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PMID: 21467284
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It is well recognized that medication errors occur and can affect success in treating patients with HIV/AIDS. However, little information is available describing the prevalence, nature, and causes of medication errors.
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PMID: 21487084
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Medical Care (49)1 2011
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Medication prescribing is a complex process where the focus tends to be on starting new medication, changing a drug regimen, and continuing a drug regimen. On occasion, a prudent approach to prescribing may necessitate ending an ongoing course of medication, either because it should not have been st...
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PMID: 20966784
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Lakartidningen (108)6 2011
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Ugeskrift for laeger (172)50 2010
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We wanted to test whether we, by using data on thousands of prescriptions, could answer a prosaic yet very timely question: Which penicillin is most widely accepted?
By use of the Odense PharmacoEpidemiological Database (OPED) we extracted data on all penicillin prescriptions issued to children in t...
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PMID: 21156107
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There is an increasing awareness about the risk of thromboembolic disease caused by combination oral contraceptives. This study assesses routines associated with prescription of an oral contraceptive, with an emphasis on venous thromboembolic disease.
A questionnaire requesting information about med...
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PMID: 21139658
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)46 2010
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A survey was carried out to determine the prevalence and appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy (AMT) in the Netherlands and to identify determinants for inappropriate AMT. Prevalence surveys of patients hospitalised in the Netherlands were performed three times in 2008 and 2009. Patients' demogra...
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PMID: 21144427
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Annals of Internal Medicine (153)9 2010
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Several national organizations recommend that fracture risk assessment and osteoporotic treatment be based on estimated absolute 10-year fracture risk rather than bone mineral density (BMD) alone.
To assess the changes in physician prescribing behavior after introduction of absolute 10-year fracture...
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PMID: 21041577
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Military Medicine (175)11 2010
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The purpose of this mixed qualitative/quantitative study was to review the impact of a policy to accept facsimile (fax) prescriptions as standard operating procedure. Between February and April 2009 the pharmacy processed 4,792 new prescriptions of which 363 (7.6%) were received through fax. Of the...
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PMID: 21121504
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Hospital practice (1995) (38)4 2010
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Many acutely ill medical patients are at significant risk for developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) during hospitalization. Venous thromboembolism risk arises from both the presenting clinical condition as well as predisposing risk factors, such as advanced age. Thromboprophylaxis is underprescrib...
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PMID: 21068523
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Harvard Heart Letter (21)3 2010
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)5 2010
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The safe prescribing, use, administration, and monitoring of medications are an important component of patient safety efforts and are of particular importance to the obstetrician/gynecologist. Safe use of medications requires a team-based approach focused on medication safety with effective 2-way co...
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PMID: 20661034
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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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There is growing concern over increasingly limited access to local health care, including pharmacies, for rural citizens of the United States. Although geographically distant from most competitors, rural pharmacies may still struggle to generate an acceptable profit to remain economically viable. Th...
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PMID: 20813334
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The medication leaflets represent the main source of written information supplied to the patients, in special to the elderly. This study aimed to analyze the content of the leaflets of drugs often prescribed for elderly people with hypertension, as well as their adequacy to the sanitary regulations...
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PMID: 20922300
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Wiener klinische Wochenschrift (122)15-16 2010
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We performed a qualitative interview study to investigate how high-prescribing family physicians explain their own prescription.
Five family physicians with benzodiazepine prescriptions in volumes larger than 4000 defined daily doses per month and five who prescribed volumes smaller than 2000 define...
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PMID: 20658195
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We assessed the status of antithrombotic management of stroke patients in clinics across China. 2. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 19 urban neurological clinics. All subjects diagnosed with ischaemic stroke (IS) or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) were enrolled consecutively in the study....
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PMID: 20456429
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)4 2010
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The Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC) is a relatively recent service development that aims to improve emergency care of psychiatric patients. The goal of this paper was to report on the characteristics of admissions to a recently established PECC.
Several key characteristics of admissions to...
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PMID: 20645898
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PURPOSE. To examine whether treatment with oral blood-pressure-lowering medication or statins influences the risk of glaucoma. METHODS. This study was a case-control investigation, nested within a computerized primary care database of 177 general practices across the United Kingdom; 8778 cases diagn...
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PMID: 20130286
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Among 179 participants, OARRS data revealed high numbers of narcotics prescriptions filled in the most recent 12 months (median 7; range 0 to 128). Numerous providers prescribed narcotics for patients (median 3 per patient; range 0 to 40). Patients had filled narcotics prescriptions at different pha...
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PMID: 20045578
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)7 2010
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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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Annals of Internal Medicine (152)11 2010
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During the survey, we observed a 13.2% decrease of norfloxacin prescriptions between the first quarter 2008 and the first quarter 2009. The (fosfomycin+nitrofurantoin)/norfloxacin ratio increased between the third quarter 2007 and the first quarter 2009 from 0.55 to 0.72 and from 0.82 to 1.13 for ge...
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PMID: 20172675
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Medical Care (48)6 2010
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We assessed health care costs as a share of household resources remaining after spending on essential housing, food, personal care, and transportation. Burdensome health care costs were defined as exceeding 40% of nonessential resources. We used logistic regressions to assess the probability of incu...
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PMID: 20473197
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Less than 10% of the ambulatory visits for hepatitis C were associated with a prescription for antiviral therapy, independent of demographic and insurance status. Purposes of the clinic visits were different in the CHC group compared to the general population. The reason for the low treatment rate i...
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PMID: 20186486
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Paediatric nursing (22)5 2010
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Errors totalled 301, the most common was overwriting of a prescription, the least common was incorrect dates. No resulting adverse events were recorded. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of errors needs to be reduced to avoid serious adverse incidents. Computerised physician order entry systems are discuss...
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PMID: 20583641
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Prescrire international (19)107 2010
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Market research companies analyse drug prescriptions and sales in community and hospital pharmacies, thus enabling drug companies to refine their marketing strategies. Some information of interest to drug companies is provided directly by healthcare professionals, sometimes unwittingly, and sometime...
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PMID: 20738051
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Pediatric Anesthesia (20)6 2010
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The 1-year periodic prevalence of opioid use in Norwegian children and adolescents is only one-sixteenth of the previously reported prevalence in the Norwegian adult population. Children and adolescents primarily receive opioids for acute pain....
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PMID: 20609118
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Ciencia and Saude Coletiva (15 Suppl 1) 2010
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The abusive use of drugs in clinical routine of dentistry represents a problem of public health. Studies have demonstrated that the effectiveness of anti-hypertensive drugs was decreased by the simultaneous use of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NAIDs), mainly in elderly patients with primary...
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PMID: 20640339
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Ciencia and Saude Coletiva (15 Suppl 1) 2010
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The antimicrobials are one of the groups of the most prescribed drugs in hospitals and which cause a great concern for the suitability of their use. The profile of the antimicrobials utilized in a private hospital in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul State was described and the quantity of each a...
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PMID: 20640283
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Archives of Internal Medicine (170)10 2010
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The ALLHAT/JNC7 Dissemination Project was associated with a small effect on thiazide-type diuretic use consistent with its small dose and the potential of external factors to diminish its impact. Academic detailing may increase physicians' implementation of clinical trial results, thereby making pre...
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PMID: 20498411
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55 (2.1 %) participants had received at least one benzodiazepine prescription. Benzodiazepine prescription was significantly associated with frequent cannabis use (OR 4.2) and high level of anxiety (OR 8.5). The patients' sex, age and urbanity had no impact on benzodiazepine prescription. INTERPRETA...
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PMID: 20453954
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There are wide differences in toxicity not only between classes of antidepressants, but also within classes. The findings are relevant to prescribing decisions, especially in individuals at risk, and to regulatory policy....
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PMID: 20435959
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Thrombosis and Haemostasis (103)5 2010
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The aims of this study were to investigate trends in the incidence of diagnosed atrial fibrillation (AF), and to identify factors associated with the prescription of antithrombotics (ATs) and to identify the persistence of patients with oral anticoagulant (OAC) treatment in primary care. Data were o...
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PMID: 20216987
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The Nurse Practitioner (35)5 2010
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We can subcutaneously administer a compound oxycodone injection (Pavinal) containing a small amount of hydrocotarnine. Since few clinical reports on efficacy and safety of the compound oxycodone injection have been published in Japan, we conducted a retrospective multicenter survey with structured s...
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PMID: 20495318
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Twelve out of 20 physicians stated positively that their female patients often forget their pill. However, they noted that missed pill was seldom a reason for phone call or consultation. During the initial pill prescription, GPs insisted on how to take the pill (14/25) as well as advice in case of a...
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PMID: 20334984
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The seasonal influence on initiation of antidepressant drug use has not changed with the introduction of the newer antidepressants and is in line with seasonality of depression onset, with most patients initiating use during the winter and fewest during the summer.
Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier B.V. A...
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PMID: 19733914
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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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New Zealand Medical Journal (123)1313 2010
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Fifty-nine patients (62 admissions) were recruited. Dose deviations occurred on 19 (30.7%) occasions. More dose deviations occurred at or close to guideline transition points (total body weight over 90 kg and/or creatinine clearance between 20-40 mL/min). CONCLUSION: Current enoxaparin dosing guidel...
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PMID: 20581896
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Health Policy (95)2-3 2010
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The majority of the respondents (85.1%) claimed that they actively prescribed generic medicines in their practice. On the other hand, only 4.6% of the respondents correctly identified the Malaysia's National Pharmaceutical Control Bureau's bioequivalence standard for generic products. There were mis...
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PMID: 20044165
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Health Policy (95)2-3 2010
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Prescribing decisions are subject to a myriad of external factors. The present study shows how physicians' characteristics might affect drug prescription in terms of prevalence of use, costs and consumption. Using regional administrative databases it has been possible to analyse the association betw...
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PMID: 20047773
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Requiring PA for novel topical treatments for psoriasis, such as the new two-compound product containing calcipotriene and betamethasone dipropionate (Taclonex((R)); Warner Chilcott (US), Inc.; marketed as Daivobet((R))/Dovobet((R)) outside US by LEO Pharma), is not likely to be cost-effective for a...
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PMID: 19821787
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Requiring prior authorization for topical retinoids for all age groups seems unwarranted and may not be cost-beneficial for the managed care organizations based on these and previous findings....
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PMID: 19895328
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Revue medicale suisse (6)247 2010
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Generic substitution of antiepileptic drugs (EAD) have limited use because epilepsy is a chronic disease, seizure recurrence has an important impact of the quality of life and the potential risk of accidents. EADs have a narrow therapeutic window, non negligible side effects and complex interactions...
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PMID: 20499577
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In August 2009 the Department of Health recommended that by the beginning of this year medications prescribed should be substituted by dispensing pharmacies in a bid to save the NHS wasted money on issuing branded medication. Prescribing generic medication has been deemed good practice for a long ti...
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PMID: 20453827
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