Adverse reactions were mild and the study did not record any instances of medication discontinuation or study withdrawals.
Research shows that EMRs have the potential to reduce instances of medication errors and improve communication between pharmacists and prescribers; however, more research is required to demonstrate whether this is true.
For example, all instances of medication prescription that were not prescribed at the 'present time' (this refers to medication prescribed up until today, or from today with regard to the date the document was written) and that did not include a dose value were excluded at the point of data extraction.
For each respondent, we summed the recorded instances of medication-related side effects or adverse events and created a composite measure, reported as "sum of adverse events".
Patients who switched to desloratadine experienced significantly less instances of medication-related adverse events, when compared with patients who switched to fexofenadine (see table 2).
Given our 10-year accrual period (1 April 2003 to 31 March 2013), we could expect to have access to a total of over 130 million different instances of medications dispensed to individual patients, and even more prescriptions.
As with the full segments, severe allergy sufferers who switched from loratadine to desloratadine due to dissatisfaction reported significantly less instances of medication-related adverse events, when compared with similar patients who switched to fexofenadine (see table 3).
Write down every instance of medical care you receive — all exams, tests, medications and procedures.
Volunteers with the program have reported continued misuse of gender pronouns and at least one instance of delayed medication as well as increasing use of arbitrary lockups for as little as removing one's bed sheet or dancing.
As a consequence a new instance of the Medication OWL class is created in the ontology.
