PPIs ranked as the sixth most frequently dispensed therapeutic class in the US and third in Ireland in 2009 [ 2, 3].
The proportion of subjects accessing each health service and the proportion of subjects dispensed each class of medicine, defined by the third digit ATC code, was assessed.
"Upstairs Downstairs," you may recall, was a reassuring Edwardian soap opera in which the beneficent ruling class dispensed noblesse oblige to the true-blue servants, and everybody was reasonably settled and happy.
All five vessels of the Deutschland class dispensed with the turret mountings for the secondary 17 cm guns; all of these guns were mounted in casemates in the hull.
As a proxy of general morbidity as well as a proxy of healthcare- and pharmacy-seeking behavior, the number of distinct medication classes dispensed (unique ATC codes) excluding statins and unique hospital admissions in the year prior to diagnosis were also considered potential confounders (both as continuous variables).
Additional baseline covariates were empirically identified by listing the 100 most frequent drug classes dispensed to the duloxetine initiator cohort during the baseline period, along with the most frequent diagnoses (at the 3-digit ICD-9 level) and procedures (based on Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes).
We can follow the Jaron Lanier argument that suggests a combination of software and globalisation has taken away jobs from the middle class and therefore dispensed with the need for such a class to exist.
Manrico and Luna - the latter has lost his aristocratic "di", since Bieito has dispensed with Verdi's class differentiations - are rivals for leadership of the same gang.
He hated discipline that required the strap, having received it more than 200 times himself, and in a dramatic gesture took the instrument from his desk, cut it into pieces and dispensed them to the class.
In the Atmeh camp –inside Syria close to the Turkish border – for instance, the basic Syrian curriculum is taught, but pictures of the president are ripped out of the textbooks and the propagandistic "nationalism" class is dispensed with.
