The S group rarely resorted to disruptive behavior, such as frequent drug requests (n = 5; 12%) or self-harm (n = 3; 7%).
Conversely, drug requests and occurrences of self-harm were less frequent in the shoplifting group than in the drug-offense group.
The PCIP incorporated drug ordering, filling the drug requests, distribution, and dispensing of the medications in multiple settings; inventory of currently shelved medications; and graphic reporting of 'real-time' medication usage.
Patients were considered to have remarkable symptoms if they exhibited disruptive behavior (use of violent language, frequent drug requests, self-harm, food refusal, purging, falsifying dietary intake amounts, food hoarding, or excessive exercise).
Results of pre- (1999) and post- (2002) campaign questionnaires indicated that Wisconsin clinicians perceived a significant decline in the proportion of patients requesting antimicrobial drugs (50% in 1999 to 30% in 2002 p<0.0011) and in antimicrobial drug requests from parents for children (25% in 1999 to 20% in 2002; p = 0.004).
The construct of the PCIP was to be an electronic medication request platform from a listing of locally available hospital drugs; a decision process for drug approval or denial, based predominately on existing drug availability; an electronic real-time debit of the inventory; and the filling of drug requests at the point of care.
"Before 2001, I never saw an American come down," a Peruvian shaman said during an interview for the 2009 book This Is Your Country On Drugs, requesting anonymity so as not to go to prison.
Outcomes will be expressed as proportions of patients cared for by GPs who will have prescriptions of drugs, requests for tests and for outpatient appointment visits.
Sherpas are almost never given dexamethasone prophylactically, because they don't have personal physicians in their villages who will prescribe the drug on request.
Later this year, they'll seek FDA approval for a new cancer drug and request an additional application for Arcalyst, their first product on the market.
