The mean total dispensed quantities (SD) for continuing patients were 2,539 (509) mg for etanercept and 1,176 (419) mg for adalimumab.
Higher rates of dose escalation compared with etanercept were observed, and average weekly doses and total dispensed quantities of adalimumab were slightly higher than the label dose.
The mean total dispensed quantities (SD) within 12 months for new patients were 2,631 (369) mg for etanercept and 1,111 (269) mg for adalimumab.
Consistent with the dose escalation results, the average weekly dose over the study period and the total dispensed quantities within 12 months for the patients who were persistent on etanercept were close to the label dose of 50 mg weekly.
Each pharmacy record includes a patient identifier, the drug type and dose, date dispensed, quantity dispensed, and dosing instructions.
All these datasets encompass patient-level dispensing data, which include the following: a patient identifier, patient demographics, date of medicine supply, medicine dispensed, quantity and strength.
Prescription drug claims identified the specific product dispensed, quantity, strength, the date the prescription was filled, and the associated drug acquisition cost.
Important aspects of the report for the primary care provider are the drugs dispensed, quantity, dates, prescribers, and pharmacies, as well as determining suspicious patterns, if any.
The evaluation of these interventions may also have been confounded by patient practice, where these medicines may be used "as required" and thus change in dispensing quantities may be delayed, hence the positive effect in the post-intervention trend only.
Pesticides were dispensed in quantities of 0.8 ± 0.1 to 8.2 ± 3.5 Kg or litres and it was common to find small quantities of fungicides in unlabelled plastic polythene bags.
However, the pharmacy records are verified for accuracy and completeness of the data, which includes the NDC of the drug, the date the prescription is filled and/or refilled, the quantity dispensed, the amount paid by the patient, the amount paid by any third-party payers, and the type of third-party payer during any calendar year.
