Data include the name of the prescribed drug, date of dispensing, quantity dispensed, dose regimen, prescribing physician and ATC codes [ 12].
The National Prescription Registry provided information on the date of dispensing, quantity dispensed, strength, and formulation of all drugs dispensed from Danish pharmacies and classified according to the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) system (supplementary table 2).
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.
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.
Data available for each retail pharmacy claim include the drug dispensed, dispensing date, quantity dispensed, and number of days supplied.
Data available for each retail pharmacy claim include the drug dispensed (in National Drug Code [NDC] format), dispensing date, quantity dispensed, and number of days of therapy supplied.
There's the white ice crusher with its red crank, and the brown apothecary bottle with an eyedropper, for dispensing minute quantities of celery bitters.
Mathematical models published in August in Nature and Science (ScienceNOW, 3 August 2005) predict that by dispensing huge quantities of antiviral drugs to the area where human-to-human transmission of a new influenza virus begins--the prelude to a pandemic--and enacting rigorous quarantine measures, it might be possible to nip a pandemic in the bud.
