This could be an indication of the appropriateness of using this scale with an adolescent population.
The Vegan Society makes a general recommendation of 10mg per day with a once-weekly B12 supplement perhaps of 2000mg but fails to provide an indication of age appropriateness.
53 As no single set of appropriateness indications for damage control surgery exists, a large number of heterogeneous, sometimes non-specific, and even contradicting indications for the procedure have been proposed.
The GP was therefore the judge of appropriateness of indication and dosage of drugs causing ADEs and this may introduce a bias against reporting inappropriate indication or dose.
drug-drug interactions, contraindications, suitability to reach the therapeutic goals, guideline accordance, difficulties in handling the drugs, problems of timing and drug-food interactions, indications without a drug, drugs without an indication, duplications, toxicity/dose/geriatric appropriateness, drug monitoring, appropriateness of lengths of therapy, side effects and costs.
11 Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI) 15 is a validated judgement-based tool and includes 10 aspects of appropriateness of prescribing: indication, effectiveness, dosage, correct and practical directions, drug drug and drug disease interactions, duplication, duration and costs.
After extensive discussion, the panelists revised the indications according to the above-mentioned definition of appropriateness.
However, for a number of indications, the appropriateness patterns were more complex, and full representation is almost impossible in a paper form.
Changes in bowel habit and anaemia were the indications for diagnostic suspicion which presented the highest percentages of appropriateness of colonoscopy.
The panelists were provided with the literature review and the list of indications, and they rated each indication for the appropriateness of performing phacoemulsification, considering the average patient and average physician in the year 2004.
