The lower part of Table 1 reports the estimated probabilities of the intensity of medication management.
Tests for a dose-response trend with increasing intensity of medication use were performed with intensity coded ordinally using the median value within each category.
A second set of end points was defined to reflect the intensity of medication management strategies of the three outcomes for subjects with risk factor values at or above these cut points.
Intensity of disease management (in 2000) did not appear to affect racial/ethnic disparities in risk factor control, flu vaccination rates, or intensity of medication management for elevated risk factors either positively or negatively (54).
Pharmacy databases are increasingly being used to assess medication usage, and a number of measures have been developed to characterize both the intensity of medication usage compared to intended use (adherence), and the extent to which such usage persists over time (persistence) [ 1, 2].
Results showed that Nabilone 0.5 mg daily, a synthetic cannabinoid, was superior in reducing daily analgesic intake, pain intensity, level of medication dependence, and improved quality of life in these patients [62].
Methods: A four-way between-groups analysis of variance assessed whether the gender of the nurse, race of the nurse, gender of the patient, or race of the patient made any differences in the dose intensity of pain medications selected by the nurse sample.
However, as some patients mentioned difficulties when asked, adherence issues may simply have been eclipsed by the intensity of the medications' side effects.
Although in the analysis of effects on HbA1c we did adjust for time-updated changes in intensity of diabetes medications, based on the number of drugs being used, we did not adjust for dose changes within a specific category of oral drugs.
With the abuse of antimigraine drugs, migraineurs patients may develop MOH, a frequent and disabling condition characterized by increased headache frequency and intensity, inefficacy of medications and development of drug dependence [7].
Since then, several Italian headache centers have adopted OBT-A for the routine management of CM and some of them have confirmed the efficacy of this new approach as assessed by conventional outcome measures, including headache frequency, pain intensity, use of medications for symptom relief, headache-related disability, and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) [26, 31 35].
