This conclusion is consistent with findings from a previous study by Kwon (2013), which found that the release of generic drugs on the market tended to not only replace the original drug market, but to also increase the overall market share for medication composed of essentially the same ingredients [ 4].
Medication costs were composed of antipsychotic medications, concomitant medications, and other medications.
However, all-cause medication discontinuation is composed of medication switching and study discontinuation, two components on which patient subgroups seem to differ.
Medication history was composed of immunosuppressive agents, anticoagulant drugs (warfarin), antiplatelet drugs (aspirin or clopidogrel), intravenous antibiotics, and oral antibiotics.
The long-term care elderly population is particularly vulnerable to inappropriate medication use; it is composed of frail older patients who typically have functional disabilities and acute and chronic medical histories that require complex medication regimens [ 20, 21].
Treatment was composed of two subcategories "medication" and "therapies".
Recruiting patients with less than 2 years of opioid medication use proved difficult; the final sample was composed of 24% who reported <2 years of opioid medication use and 65% who reported ≥2 years, with the remaining patients reporting that they were unsure of the duration of opioid use.
Interventions designated with a high probability of preventing an ADE were largely composed of omissions of essential medications (e.g. anti-epileptic drugs) or known serious drug interactions.
The structure of the village doctors' income had gradually changed from medication fees to a more complex constitution composed of registration fees, compensation for selling essential drugs with zero markup, and subsidies for the public health service since 2009.
Kampo formulations are composed of combinations of various herbal medications and typically exert therapeutic effects through the integration of multi-component, multi-mode actions.
