The fragile coalition government led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had been expected to win parliamentary approval late Sunday for its 2013 budget, which prescribes spending cuts and tax increases worth €9.4 billion, as demanded by the troika.
In Washington, the architects of sequestration believed that both Democrats and Republicans would find the prescribed automatic spending cuts so painful that they would be forced to sign a budget deal.
The cost of glucose-lowering medications accounts for a disproportionate share of medication costs, doubling from 6.3% of all prescribed drug spending in the U.S. in 2001 to 12.2% in 2007 (5).
Very often, to be quite honest with you, it's easier just to prescribe than spend time arguing.
At the end of July 1931 the May Committee, appointed in February to investigate government spending, prescribed heavy cuts, including a massive reduction in unemployment benefit.
"I got a letter yesterday from a pharmacist who said, 'We don't want to be in jail because we prescribed something!' We're spending an inordinate amount of time on social or personal issues, however you want to put it, but we haven't done anything on property tax relief, higher education funding, fixing the roads.
18 26 However obligatory medical clerkships, where students are assumed to acquire prescribing skills by spending up to 16 weeks with a GP or in a hospital setting, did not have a significant effect on the rate of prescription errors.
This study was undertaken in order to assess the accuracy, completeness and time spent prescribing with CAP compared with handwritten prescriptions in a busy ICU in the UK.
This study evaluated the computerised prescribing system by comparing the accuracy and completeness of prescriptions, and time spent prescribing before and after the introduction of CAP.
If the company fails to spend the prescribed amount, the board in its report is required to specify the reasons.
