These results suggested that pharmacy dispensing information could supplement traditional TB surveillance.
In this study, we assume that, at least from 2002, the clinically significant CYP-mediated drug interactions had already been avoided during prescribing and dispensing by the software-supported medications surveillance commonly used in The Netherlands [ 26].
Programmed never to divulge personal information about its surveillance targets, the Machine dispenses only their Social Security numbers.
Philip Bobbitt makes two arguments, political and technological, for, in effect, dispensing with the Fourth Amendment and conducting surveillance without probable cause.
A minority of the LHDs in the study also utilized workplace absenteeism rates, 911 calls, medical dispensing data, poison control center calls, and airport surveillance.
These studies compared: ascertainment of SSI by the capture of data from existing systems (claims and pharmacy dispensing data, medical records) with prospective hospital based surveillance using NNIS criteria [ 15].
The IMS HEALTH Canada Compuscript database provided continuous surveillance data of the total number of antibiotic prescriptions dispensed in Canadian retail pharmacies based on a representative sample of 2000 pharmacies stratified by province, store type and size [ 7].
Pharmacy dispensing information routinely collected by many HMOs appears to be a useful adjunct to traditional TB surveillance, particularly for identifying cases without positive microbiologic results that may be missed by traditional public health surveillance methods.
Other electronic data (e.g., coded discharge diagnoses or pharmacy dispensing data) have also been used to improve the sensitivity and timeliness of routine notifiable disease surveillance [ 11, 12].
Proactive surveillance documented substantial variability in performance, with the best performance demonstrated on the indicator measuring rates of dispensing of contra-indicated benzodiazepines to the elderly, and the worst performance demonstrated on the dispensing of SABA to patients who were over-using this medication.
