The Dartmouth researchers, in one example, used data from a published study of the insomnia drug Lunesta to create a benefit box showing that volunteers who took the sleeping pill nightly for six months typically fell asleep 15 minutes faster than people on a placebo.
The patients indicated that they felt their GPs had a pivotal role in informing them about all the possible complications of diabetes and that better collaboration between medical and dental healthcare providers could only be of benefit (box 3 5)).
How can that benefit boxing?
These drug fact boxes or benefit boxes, as the Dartmouth team calls them, would appear on magazine advertisements for drugs as well as on the Food and Drug Administration's Web site, if the researchers have their way.
The Dartmouth researchers said their benefit boxes could provide an answer to such criticisms at a time when some members of Congress have vowed to restrict drug advertising, even as the industry argues that such marketing is a valuable consumer education tool.
For instance, if there is a number in the "spousal benefits" box, that means you would take those benefits until the year that "retirement benefits" show up.
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- We have found that such knowledge sharing activities offered several unexpected benefits (Box), and we recommend multifaceted community-based programs to consider incorporating such activities into their program evaluation.
My thrift-shop clothing drove her wild, as did the secondhand mattress lying without benefit of box springs upon my hardwood floor.
Perceived benefits of sports and exercise were measured using two scores from 13 benefits (see Box 1) rated 1 5 (1 = not at all; 2; 3; 4; 5 = great deal) with 6 as 'don't know'.
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