The steady growth of pharmaceutical expenditures is a major concern for health policy makers and health care managers in Malaysia. Our study examined the factors affecting the total inpatient pharmacy cost (TINPC) at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC). In this retrospective study, we used 2011 administration electronic prescriptions records and casemix databases at UKMMC ...

BACKGROUND Coronary heart disease (CHD) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remain significant public health problems. The effect of ACS on mortality and morbidity is largely dependent on the time from symptom onset to the time of reperfusion, but patient delay in presenting for treatment is the main reason timely reperfusion is not received. OBJECTIVES We tested the effect of an education and ...

BACKGROUND Self-assessment of resilience could prove valuable to military and other organizations whose personnel confront foreseen stressors. We evaluated the validity of self-assessed resilience among U.S. Army soldiers, including whether predeployment perceived resilience predicted postdeployment emotional disorder. METHODS Resilience was assessed via self-administered questionnaire among ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The effectiveness of coronary drug-eluting stents has not been fully studied in very elderly patients who have clinical features that predispose them to side effects and long-term adverse events. METHODS The safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents were studied in a historical cohort of consecutive octogenarian patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interve...

Recent decades have seen several advances in medical care for acute stroke patients, but there has been little systematic documentation of these changes. This study examined changes in technology use and medical therapies for hospitalized acute stroke during the 1980s. For 1980, 1985, and 1990, we obtained discharge diagnosis lists from Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan hospitals, identified hos...

BACKGROUND Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest (CoI) is a standard practice for many biomedical journals but not for educational materials. The goal of this investigation was to determine whether the authors of pharmacology textbooks have undisclosed financial CoIs and to identify author characteristics associated with CoIs. METHODS AND FINDINGS The presence of potential CoIs was ev...

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