background: as a major responsibility, health authorities must control rational prescription of drugs (rud). a way to analyze the regional status of drug prescription is the who’s recommended indices. the purpose of the study was to determine the status of drug prescriptions in pharmacies of healthcare centers under the authority of tehran university of medical sciences based on the who indices...

Background & aimsThe year 2019 marked the centenary of publication Harris and Benedict equations for estimation energy expenditure. In October a Scientific Symposium was organized by European Society Clinical Nutrition Metabolism (ESPEN) in Vienna, Austria, to celebrate this historical landmark, looking at what is currently known about measurement expenditure.MethodsCurrent evidence discussed d...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim is to explore whether prescription drug expenditures by enrollees changed in Alabama's CHIP program, ALL Kids, after copayment increases in fiscal year 2004. The subsidiary aim is to explore whether non-pharmaceutical expenditures also changed. DATA SOURCES Data on ALL Kids enrollees between 1999-2007, obtained from claims files and the state's administrative databas...

One of the important roles of pharmacists as members of a nutrition support team is nutritional prescription support. We developed a nutritional prescription support system (NPSS) that facilitates prescription support and analysis and evaluated its usefulness in nutritional therapy. An NPSS for prescription support and the management of patient information was created. With this NPSS, the nutri...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the medicines prescription, prescription filling, payment expenditure for medicines by ambulatory health service users (HSU) in 2006, and to evaluate its evolution in the last 12 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using data from the National Health Surveys in 2006 three binary logistic regression models were constructed to identify the variables associated with the prescription...

The Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) provides outpatient prescription drug coverage for nearly one-half million State residents 65 years of age or over with income under $15,000 per year. A description of the PACE program is provided herein, along with data and multivariate results relating to the demographic characteristics of PACE beneficiaries, duration ...

Patients with epilepsy are frequently invited (often by their own GP) to switch from branded to generic anti-epileptic drugs. The main reason for this change in treatment is that generic drugs cost less, and this has important implications in health expenditure control. Despite the “essential similarity” of drugs, the prescription of generic products may, however, expose patients to additional ...