As socioeconomic status grew lower, for example, the likelihood of being prescribed a high-risk drug increased.
Yet the chances of being prescribed drugs for ADHD differ widely from place to place, says Eric Taylor, of the Institute of Psychiatry.
Millions of people are being unnecessarily labelled pre-diabetic, increasing their likelihood of being prescribed drugs which will at best briefly delay the onset of the illness, say experts.
Although Vaso's pump has the potential of being prescribed for five million patients with heart disease in the United States, few of the nation's heart-care specialists have chosen to do so.
In "Art and Madness" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $25), Anne Roiphe recalls her credulous, art-obsessed youth in the 1950s, including the time she quoted Aldous Huxley to a nurse at Smith College in the hopes of being prescribed LSD.
For Bristol this market would have been small change, but drugs approved for one use have a way of being prescribed for others.
Although MRT has a long history of being prescribed based on different fixed-activity schemas, with successful treatment results obtained in patient groups, this does not mean that the treatment is also optimal for an individual patient.
The very practical concern is that individuals experiencing grief will have a greater likelihood of being prescribed antidepressants.
Children covered by Medicaid are far more likely to be prescribed antipsychotic drugs than children covered by private insurance, and Medicaid-covered kids have a higher likelihood of being prescribed antipsychotics even if they have no psychotic symptoms.
They experienced particular tensions between recommendations to stay active versus the expectation of being prescribed rest.
Values show probability of being prescribed an antibiotic, calculated from coefficients derived from multilevel modelling.
