BACKGROUND Reports from drug utilization reviews are important tools employed in the assessment of healthcare practices. The objective of this study was to evaluate drug utilization patterns among elderly hospitalized patients on poly-pharmacy regimens in Pakistan. METHODS A descriptive, non-experimental, cross-sectional study was carried out from December 2015 to March 2016 in six tertiary-c...

Drug Utilization Evaluation (DUE) studies are designed to assess drug usage appropriateness. We aim to evaluate the drug utilization of intravenous ciprofloxacin and imipenem, two of the broad spectrum antibiotics that consume a significant proportion of our hospitals' outlay, in different wards of a teaching hospital in Zabol. During a 5 months period (December 2010 to May 2011), 263 patients ...

Dementia affects 9% of the population over the age of 65.1 Most cases of dementia (65%) are due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Three cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI) are currently available on the Canadian market for the treatment of AD: donepezil, rivastigmine, and galantamine. Very few environmental studies exist on the use of these medications in a nonselected population of patients with AD, a...

BACKGROUND The inappropriate use of aminoglycosides has harmful effects such as the development of resistant pathogens and the incidence of nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity. Therefore, drug utilization evaluation of these drugs may improve their usage remarkably. The aim of this study was to assess the usage pattern of amikacin in an internal medicine ward. METHODS This cross-sectional study wa...

Citation: Sancho M, De Gracia M, Rodríguez RC, Mallorquí-Bagué N, Sánchez-González J, Trujols J, Sánchez I, Jiménez-Murcia S and Menchón JM (2018) MindfulnessBased Interventions for the Treatment of Substance and Behavioral Addictions: A Systematic Review. Front. Psychiatry 9:95. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00095 mindfulness-Based interventions for the treatment of Substance and Behavioral addictio...

60 IL L U S T R A T IO N : D A V ID P L U N K E R T On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It was the offi cial letter of acceptance for a paper he had submitted 2 months earlier to the Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals, describing the anticancer properties of a chemical that Cobange had extracted from a lichen...

BACKGROUND Isotretinoin (13-cis retinoic acid) is used for treatment of nodular cystic acne unresponsive to conventional therapy. It is an expensive, potent teratogenic drug with serious adverse drug reaction (ADRs). Recently, use of this drug has increased in Iran. To date, there are no published data about the use of isotretinoin in Iran; therefore, this study aims to assess its use in this c...

Objective: To identify the utilization pattern of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in a representative sample of the Pakistani population. To highlight the main risk factors associated with different forms of epilepsy. Methods: A retrospective drug utilization review study was conducted at three teaching institutions of Karachi. During the nine months study period, epileptic and non-epileptic patient...