Background The medications that are registered and available in a country are meant for the prevention and treatment of ailments and diseases. However, a lack of effective regulatory bodies and operative control mechanisms, especially in developing countries, promotes irrational and inappropriate use of medicines. This study aims to evaluate the availability and rationality of unregistered fixe...

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The decisions voters make-and whether those decisions are rational-have profound implications on the functionality of a democratic society. In this study, we delineated two criteria in evaluating voter rationality and weigh evidence of voter rationality versus irrationality. Furthermore, we compared models in two different elections in Taiwan to explore the reasons behind the irrational choices...

Decision making is integral for organizational success, and that, the basic tenet rationality. Yet, no decisions in workplace are purely rational. Irrational decision-making behaviours irrational beliefs of employees. employee can cause a billion dollar revenue loss. The purpose this paper to study complex phenomenon decision unearth its dimensions. Hence, envisaged as lived experience using in...

OBJECTIVES (1) To estimate the cost of irrational prescribing, and (2) to compare the effect of three different kinds of user fee on prescribing costs, in rural Nepal. METHODS A controlled before-after study was conducted in 33 government primary health care facilities in rural eastern Nepal during 1992-95. A fee per prescription (covering all drugs in whatever amounts) was regarded as the co...

Human antimicrobial misuse/overuse/irrational use is one of the main drivers resistance (AMR) and in presence a rapidly drying up antibiotic pipeline, it becomes imperative that we learn to antibiotics judiciously responsibly. In 2010, India was adjudicated be world’s largest consumer hence curbing injudicious must. Antibiotic abuse happens due common fallacies such as belief broad spectrum are...

BACKGROUND Usually, surgical management cannot be completed without the use of antimicrobial and analgesic drugs. Irrational prescription may lead to severe postoperative complications. AIM The objective of this study was to evaluate the prescription trend in the surgery department of a tribal district hospital so as to determine the extent of rational use of medicines. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

Modeling of a product or service’s attractiveness as a function of its own attributes (e.g., price and quality) is one of the foundations in econometric forecasts, which have been provided with an assumption that each human rationally has a consistent preference order among his choice decisions. Yet the preference orders by real humans become irrationally reversed, when the choice set of availa...