All individuals who develop symptomatic influenza or influenza-associated respiratory complications are given age-specific probabilities for self-medicating with over-the-counter drugs, for consulting a general practitioner, for receiving prescription medication or for being hospitalised.
An analysis was also conducted in patients receiving prescriptions for hormone therapy (a proxy for oestrogen receptor positivity).
The number of preschoolers receiving prescriptions for antidepressants doubled in the Medicaid programs.
The study, published in the Journal of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, looked at the number of patients receiving prescriptions for insulin using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink CPRDD).
Numbers and proportion of patients receiving prescriptions for each bisphosphonate regimen were computed.
Receiving prescriptions for prophylaxis or stockpiling purposes was not allowed in the national health insurance program.
In a real-world clinical setting, although persistence with all treatments was suboptimal, patients receiving prescriptions for once-weekly alendronate were more likely to be persistent than those receiving prescriptions for once-weekly risedronate or once-monthly ibandronate.
In conclusion, it is observed that in real-life treatment settings, postmenopausal women receiving prescriptions for AOW were significantly more likely to persist with their regimens than those receiving prescriptions for ROW or IOM.
At baseline, the proportion of patients receiving prescriptions for each initial statin dose closely matched the claims data (Table 3).
