Some clinical presentations in primary care are common and appear to be easily diagnosed clinically requiring no more therapy than reassurance and proprietary medicines available in all pharmacies by direct purchase.
Retail distribution of drugs to pharmacies and private and proprietary medicines stores is not as well regulated.
Pharmacies and private and proprietary medicines stores are able to procure drugs in bulk from local drug manufacturers [ 30].
A retrospective claims database analysis was performed using a proprietary research database containing eligibility information and pharmacy and medical claims data from a large commercial U.S. health plan providing coverage for physician, hospital, and prescription-drug services.
Among the 74 CPGs with TCM content, 43 guidelines (58%) recommended a Chinese herbal treatment (including single herbs or multiple herbs based on syndrome differentiation) and, among them, 25 guidelines (34%) recommended Chinese proprietary medicine or herbal preparations produced by a hospital pharmacy and not necessarily approved by the State Food and Drug Administration.
A retrospective study was conducted using integrated administrative medical and pharmacy claims data from the Optum Research Database, a large, proprietary US health insurance database affiliated with Optum.
To uniquely identify a subject who filled prescriptions at multiple pharmacies, a probabilistic multi-level match is performed using a proprietary IMS algorithm based on encrypted, non-identifiable data elements that include gender, date of birth, last name, first name, address, city, state, zip code, and payer.
In Nigeria, patent and proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs), defined as "a person without formal training in pharmacy who sells orthodox pharmaceutical products on a retail basis for profit" [ 10], provide the main source of medicine for many common illnesses.
He looks for companies that offer proprietary products and services, such as online video rental service NetFlix and online pet pharmacy PetMed Express, stocks that Gristina had as buys last year.
These unpublished data came from the proprietary Ingenix Impact National Managed Care Database which is a large administrative claims database containing inpatient confinement, medical claims, pharmacy claims, and member eligibility information.
