OBJECTIVE The study assesses the impact on client behavior and attitudes toward receiving an information prescription as part of a veterinary office visit. METHODS A random sample of veterinary clinics from a Western US metropolitan area was asked to distribute an information prescription in addition to their customary veterinary services. All clients, regardless of the reason for their visit...

abstract prescribing behavior of physicians affected by many factors. the present study is aimed at discovering the simultaneous effects of the evaluated factors (including: price, promotion and demographic characteristics of physicians) and quantification of these effects. in order to estimate these effects, fluvoxamine (an antidepressant drug) was selected and the model was figured out by pan...

in England and Wales (Gunnell et al., 2003; Lodhi and Shah, 2004), Sweden (Carlsten et al., 1999) and Australia (Hall et al., 2003). There may be several reasons for this. First, the sample size was small. Second, some countries may use older antidepressants for which data on the AI were absent. Third, the AI does not take into account awareness of depression among individuals and their carers,...

Despite the significance of patients' adherence to prescription drug treatments, it is estimated that > 30% of the drugs that are prescribed to older persons are not self-administered in accordance with the instructions. This research examines which factors affect the adherence to prescription drugs of older Israelis and tests whether the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) can explain their adher...

Background We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians’ drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse.   Methods We applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians’ prescription claims. It involved 5 ste...

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a significant problem in health care. While effective warnings have the potential to reduce the prevalence of ADEs, little is known about how patients access and use prescription labeling. We investigated the effectiveness of prescription warning labels (PWLs, small, colorful stickers applied at the pharmacy) in conveying warning information to two groups of patie...

OBJECTIVES To understand the extent to which medication adherence was related to diversion of prescription analgesics. DESIGN Cross-sectional analyses of data from the College Life Study, a prospective study of young adults. SETTING Participants were originally sampled as incoming first-time first-year college students from one large public university in the Mid-Atlantic United States. PA...

INTRODUCTION The increase in resistance of many pathogens to currently available antibiotics has been recognized as life-threatening problem. The development of drug resistance is promoted by irrational prescribing behavior. Inappropriate use of antibiotics is attributed by over-prescription, inadequate dosage and use for non-bacterial infections. The purpose of this study was to assess antibio...