Cough mixtures: rational or irrational prescribing in Hong Kong?

Cough mixtures: rational or irrational prescribing in Hong Kong?

OBJECTIVES To investigate the extent and how cough mixtures are prescribed, and what conditions or specific groups of people would contribute to its prescription in Hong Kong. METHODS Using diagnosis and drug data obtained from logbooks submitted by participants in the diploma in family medicine course between 1999 and 2003, we selected and analysed all patients with a diagnosis of cough or c...

antibiotic prescribing review: rational or irrational therapy?

Cough Medicine Abuse among Young People in Hong Kong

This study attempted to examine cough medicine abuse amongst young people in Hong Kong. There were three parts in this study. The first part was based on a quantitative survey of the pattern and psychosocial correlates of young cough medicine abusers in Hong Kong (160 cough medicine abusers and 65 nonabusers). In the second part of the study, focus groups were conducted involving young cough me...

Medicine, ethics and religion: rational or irrational?

Savulescu maintains that our paper, which encourages clinicians to honour requests for "inappropriate treatment" is prejudicial to his atheistic beliefs, and therefore wrong. In this paper we clarify and expand on our ideas, and respond to his assertion that medicine, ethics and atheism are objective, rational and true, while religion is irrational and false.

Investors’ Herd Behavior: Rational or Irrational?*

This study examines the relationships between the herding of various investor groups and trading noise in the Taiwan stock market to determine whether any of the investor groups tend to herd rationally. The study uses a unique and comprehensive data set on intraday transactions and limit order books of the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). We calculate the high-frequency herding measures and tradin...