the aim of the present study was to provide a clear picture of the prescribing pattern of corticosteroids in zanjan, iran. a retrospective and cross-sectional study was conducted to describe the pattern of corticosteroids prescription at beheshti pharmacy (zanjan, iran) over a period of six months between march 21 and september 22 of 2013. descriptive analyses were stratified by gender, age, typ...

Identifying the factors and components of an electronic prescription system is of utmost importance in effective designing and implementation of this system. In this regard, the current study was conducted to determine the main factors affecting the national model of electronic prescription from the physicians’ point of view. This is a cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical research carried ou...

Despite increased availability of online promotional tools for prescription drug marketers, evidence on online prescription drug promotion is far from settled or conclusive. We highlight ways in which online prescription drug promotion is similar to conventional broadcast and print advertising and ways in which it differs. We also highlight five key areas for future research: branded drug websi...

Medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs) are serious hazards for patients all over the world. Reports of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimate that a patient in an US-hospital faces at least one medication error per day [1, 2]. Most medication errors, and a majority of ADEs, occur during the prescription phase of the medication cycle [3 –5]. Amongst other approaches, the Institute of...

A high-accuracy prescription (quadrature rule) is the set of points Xj and weights Wj such that the error E (n) is a small and rapidly decreasing function of n, the number of mesh points used. Now suppose we want to integrate a function F(X l ,x2'''''Xd) = F(x) over the d-dimensional cube. The direct product technique would be to use the rule (1) d timesi ". n2 "d L L '" L Wj, Wh ... wjdF (Xj" ...

Each phase is supported by various types of DISs. We distinguish the following types of DISs: compound databases (containing the physico-chemical structural data for the computational drug discovery methods), (pre-)clinical trial databases (containing the raw or aggregate data of (pre-) clinical trials), SmPC databases (containing Summary of Product Characteristics, the source of information vi...

We introduce the MINERvA Analysis Toolkit (MAT), a utility for centralizing handling of systematic uncertainties in HEP analyses. The fundamental utilities toolkit are MnvHnD, powerful histogram container class, and Universe classes, which provide modular implementation many universe error analysis approach. These products can be used stand-alone or as part complete prescription. They support p...