Allergist Trends In Epinephrine Prescribing and Usage Patterns

Trends in medication usage in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: prescribing trends or trends in prescribers?

Patterns and trends in antipsychotic prescribing for Parkinson disease psychosis.

BACKGROUND Antipsychotic (AP) use is common in Parkinson disease (PD), but APs can worsen parkinsonism, evidence for efficacy is limited, and use in patients with dementia increases mortality. OBJECTIVE To examine the frequency and characteristics, including changes over time, of AP use in a large cohort of patients with PD. DESIGN Using Veterans Affairs data from fiscal year (FY) 2008, rat...

Epinephrine Autoinjector Prescribing Trends: An Outpatient Population-Based Study in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

BACKGROUND The prescribing pattern of epinephrine over time is an indicator of the secular trend of anaphylaxis. However, it is not well known in a population level in the United States. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the trend of prescriptions for epinephrine autoinjectors in Olmsted County, Minn, residents. METHODS Outpatient prescriptions for epinephrine were identified among residents of Olmsted...

Trends in the codon usage patterns of Chromohalobacter salexigens genes

Chromohalobacter salexigens, a Gammaproteobacterium belonging to the family Halomonadaceae, shows a broad salinity range for growth. In order to reveal the factors influencing architecture of protein coding genes in C. salexigens, pattern of synonymous codon usage bias has been investigated. Overall codon usage analysis of the microorganism revealed that C and G ending codons are predominantly ...

Trends in antibiotic prescribing.

Frischer et al., through analysis of the West Midlands General Practice Research Database, identify a reduction in antibiotic prescribing of 16 per cent between 1993 and 1997. They also demonstrate that this decline in antibiotic prescribing was concentrated in conditions such as respiratory tract infection. More recent data support a further fall in the overall prescribing of antibacterials by...