Over the mCRPC period, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists (LHRHa) prescribed to maintain castrate testosterone levels accounted for 20.4% of the total medication cost, whereas denosumab prescribed to decrease bone-related events accounted for 30.5% of costs.
These results indicate that the clinical analog of AM251, rimonabant, which is prescribed to decrease food intake, could exert its inhibitory effects against obesity, at least in part, through estrogen-related receptor alpha.
Your doctor can prescribe steroids to decrease the swelling around a tumor.
The doctor said he increased the dosage of some medications and prescribed an additional medication to decrease the likelihood of blood clotting, "thus preventing restenosis".
The main indication for prescribing antipyretics is not to decrease the temperature, but to relieve the parents' anxiety and thereby the child's discomfort [ 1].
Your general practitioner can prescribe medications that also include antibiotics to decrease the presence and growth of acne-causing bacteria (P. acnes) on your skin.
The commission also called on state regulators to review how doctors prescribed and pharmacies dispense opioid pain relievers, noting, "safe prescribing and dispensing practices are needed to decrease the risk of misuse and abuse while allowing for the legitimate use of these important medications".
Participating in a collaborative model of care with access to no cost alternative therapy appeared to decrease the frequency of prescribing regardless of whether the patient was referred.
It is difficult to discern effects of other quality improvement work happening in the unit (ie, provider turnover, independent increase in safety behaviours) that may have contributed to decreasing the narcotic prescribing error rate.
The prescriptions written by psychiatrists to women increased with increasing number of substances, while their prescribing to men decreased with more than five substances.
