Comprehensive clinical drug information service: first year's experience.

Comprehensive clinical drug information service: first year's experience.

A comprehensive clinical drug information service, established in the Northern Region in May 1975, is manned by eight doctors--all clinical pharmacologists--and is available 24 hours a day. In the first year of operation 451 inquiries were received, 354 (78-5%) of which were "consultative." Though junior hospital doctors used the service most, almost half of the inquiries about adverse reaction...

Clinical experience with daptomycin in Europe: the first 2.5 years

OBJECTIVES To describe the patient populations and infections being treated with daptomycin, as well as the efficacy and safety outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data from the European Cubicin Outcomes Registry and Experience (EU-CORESM), retrospectively collected at 118 institutions between January 2006 and August 2008, were analysed. RESULTS Daptomycin treatment was documented in 1127 patien...

[Ten years experience with the first approved biosimilar recombinant human growth hormone drug in normal clinical practice].

INTRODUCTION Recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) is the first biosimilar drug approved by the European Medicines Agency in 2006, using the biosimilar registration process. It was authorised for the treatment of growth hormone deficiency, and growth disorders associated with Turner's syndrome, chronic renal failure, Prader-Willi syndrome, and growth disorders in children/adolescents born sma...

Seven years' experience of P-drug selection.

Personal or P-drug selection teaches students to use impartial, objective information to make prescribing decisions. It is an important exercise recommended to reduce irrational prescribing and improve the prescribing behaviour of healthcare professionals. The exercise of P-drug selection has not been widely implemented in health professions schools in South Asia. This article describes the aut...

The experience of 50 years of comprehensive schooling in Scotland