BACKGROUND Canadians receive over 422 million prescriptions and spend over $26 billion annually on drugs. Yet, we do not systematically capture information on whether the right drugs reach the right people with the intended benefits, while avoiding unintended harm. It is important to identify and understand the effectiveness of approaches used to improve prescribing and medication use. OBJECT...

BACKGROUND Attenuation of the P-wave amplitudes in patients with peripheral edema (PERED) has been recently reported, with P-waves regaining some of their amplitude in patients, who subsequently experienced amelioration of their PERED. Changes in the P-waves correlated with the corresponding alterations in the QRS complexes. Also since amplitudes and durations of QRS complexes changed in parall...

In Dur, Hammond, and Morrill (2017), we provided evidence in favor of a novel classification methodology for identifying sincere and sophisticated students in school-choice matching mechanisms. Our approach allowed us to demonstrate support for previously untested claims in the theoretical matching literature regarding the distributional consequences of using a manipulable mechanism. In this ap...

A computer-assisted and cross-reference literature search identified trials of therapy for alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Those with a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled design were systematically assessed for quality of methodology. Fourteen studies were identified investigating 12 different drugs. The quality of methodological design, even among this highly selected group of published ...

BACKGROUND This study examined the use of wild plants in the food, medicinal and veterinary areas within a small territory limited to one village council in the Liubań district of Belarus. The objectives of the research were to document the current and past uses of wild plants in this region for food and human/animal medication; to analyse the food, medicinal and veterinary areas in the context...

003 Some researchers have raised concerns about significant volatility in init l payments from fixed immediate life annuities and the subsequent inflation risk dur g the retirement period. This paper investigates these concerns using recent high frequency data. It finds that while there is significant volatility in initial payments from no inal fixed annuities, phased purchases of fixed annuiti...

To evaluate the drug utilization of third generation cephalosporins using core drug use indicators in various wards of Sri Ramachandra Hospital. Third generation cephalosporins are the most commonly prescribed broad spectrum antibiotic even before the culture sensitivity results arrives. Hence this study was undertaken to study the drug utilization evaluation of third generation cephalosporins ...

A good correlation should be obtained between data derived from in vitro dissolution and bioavailability studies on drug delivery systems if bioavailability parameters are to be reliably predicted from the in vitro dissolution variables. This study compares the in vivo absorption with the in vitro dissolution profiles into various dissolution media of a novel controlled release theophylline cap...

from many other writings on the subject, is its discussion of the problem of evaluating MT systems. The proposed methodology is decomposed into three distinct areas: (i) evaluation by the system's designer; (ii) cost/benefit evaluation by the user; and (iii) linguistic evaluation by the user. This delineation serves as the framework for a more detailed and impressive, though by no means final, ...

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