The purpose of the work: to conduct a comparative analysis list essential medicines World Health Organization with Kazakhstan National Medicinal Formulary determine similarities and differences in their composition.Methods: 21st main was carried out search for common distinctive features studied lists medicines. For convenience study, spreadsheets were used, also available on websites medicines...

Medicines are an integral part of healthcare. More than one drug is frequently used for treatment of either single ailment or multiple comorbid conditions. Sometimes, two or more drugs are combined in a fixed ratio into a single dosage form, which is termed as fixed dose combinations (FDCs). The FDCs are justified when they demonstrate clear benefits in terms of (a) potentiating the therapeutic...

This paper describes a project in which a voluntary preferred prescribing list (general practice formulary), analogous to those already in use in some hospitals, was created, implemented and monitored. Cooperation between a pharmacist with knowledge of drug information, access to specialist advice and back-up in the form of evaluated information from drug information centres and a group of five...

this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

The study examined awareness of National Health Insurance Scheme activities and service utilization among enrolled employees in government institutions Nigeria. Adopting the survey research method, data was collected from 1200 samples employed three federal Government Institutions Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria using a structured self-developed questionnaire. were selected purposive propor...

We have analyzed the Danish national drug directory (Medicine.dk) and found that it provides the information from industrial drug trials instead of the more objective and reliable information on the drugs provided by meta-analyses made by researchers independent of the pharmaceutical industry, like the Cochrane collaboration. The consequence of this is a strong bias, as a large fraction of the ...

Background and aims. The improper use of drugs due to irrational prescriptions is a common problem in Libya. This study aimed investigate the prescribing pattern predictors antibiotic prescription primary health care facilities three districts (east, west, south) Methods. In this retrospective study, 484 were examined. World Health Organization-recommended indicators for rational examined (WHO)...