Sentence examples for prescribed patches from inspiring English sources

In the 1990s, transdermal drug delivery for fentanyl was introduced, and patients were prescribed patches that release fentanyl through the skin into the bloodstream over a couple of days.

A study of 649 patients with mild-to-moderate dementia from Alzheimer's disease found that patients who were prescribed patches had higher rates of adherence than those receiving oral medications [ 7].

As well as being faced with the bedroom tax, her income has shrunk considerably because she has also recently lost her incapacity benefit after being assessed as capable of working in the newly tightened fitness-for-work tests – despite back and joint problems so painful that she has been prescribed morphine patches.

A newly released study has found that half of those prescribed fentanyl patches in Canada were put at risk of overdose due to doctors failing to follow guidelines for prescribing the opiate.

We excluded the following patients: 74 prescribed buprenorphine patches; 19 whose prescriptions specified "for pain;" 152 who received injectable methadone or buprenorphine; 430 patients (5983 prescriptions) with insufficient data on duration, quantity, and daily dose to calculate periods on and off treatment.

Other commonly prescribed monotherapy patch regimens included 15 mg/16 hours patch only (9.7%), 14 mg/24 hours patch only (5.6%) and 10 mg/16 hours patch only (3.8%).

This study provides information describing people prescribed NRT patch and combination regimens involving a patch by GPs in UK primary care.

We conducted a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of increasing prescribed daily patching from 2 to 6 hours in children with stable residual amblyopia.

Taking into account the 39,068 people prescribed NRT patch during the study period with a history of NRT at baseline (excluded from the analysis), the total proportion of people prescribed NRT patch between 2008 2011 who had more than one NRT episode was 48.4% (46,936/96,986) and of 128,115 NRT users, only 14.7% (N = 18,838) were prescribed bupropion or varenicline prior to NRT use.

Furthermore, taking into account the 39,068 people prescribed NRT patch during the study period who also had a history of NRT at baseline (excluded from the current analysis), the total proportion of people prescribed NRT patch between 2008 and 2011 who had more than one NRT episode recorded in the database was 48.4% (46,936/96,986 study subjects).

Defining scope of practice was particularly difficult for community pharmacists: 'If there isn't a commissioned service available, the primary care trust (PCT) will not provide the prescriber with an NHS prescribing patch.