Benzodiazepines are sometimes used for obsessive compulsive disorder, although they are generally believed to be ineffective for this indication; effectiveness was, however, found in one small study.
Three components of the MAI (indication, effectiveness, and duplication) can be used to detect unnecessary polypharmacy and PIM prescribing.
Potential DRPs and associated recommendations were identified by implicit criteria based on a structural assessment of indication, effectiveness, safety and compliance by Hepler and Strand [ 7].
The Medication Appropriateness Index relies on implicit criteria to identify the overuse of an individual medication based on the indication, effectiveness, dosage, implementation, duration, and cost [ 168].
The Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI) [ 15] is an implicit tool which measures prescribing appropriateness according to ten criteria including indication, effectiveness, dose, administration, drug-drug and drug-disease interactions and cost.
Initially developed by Dr Joseph Hanlon and colleagues, the MAI is a validated measure of prescribing appropriateness that assesses ten elements of prescribing: indication, effectiveness, dose, correct directions, practical directions, drug drug interactions, drug disease interactions, duplication, duration, and cost.
"Positive airway pressure therapy": Theory, indications, effectiveness, adverse effects.
Objective: To assess the indications, effectiveness, and complications of ovarian transposition before pelvic irradiation for cervical cancer.
(Male policy maker, 55 years old) This study indicated that both public and private providers are ignorant about the effect and mechanism of action, side effects, indications, and effectiveness of ECP.
Patients could be provided with a low-cost try-out device capable of reliable titration, providing an indication of effectiveness and of patient acceptance of an OAm, although the effect of device shape and size on therapeutic outcome is not yet known.
Further studies are required to validate the optimal indication and effectiveness of TEVAR for complicated chronic B-AD.
