For ambulatory cardiovascular patients, a study showed that they had the highest scores for knowledge of the drug regimen and of the drug purpose, however, only a very small group could accurately provide side-effect information about the drugs they were taking [ 2].
If the dam provides positive side effects, or externalities, to those not involved in the production or consumption of the dam itself, then it can make sense for the government to subsidize these projects to the degree that they provide these third-party benefits.
Correction: June 24, 2000, Saturday An entry in the Addenda listing on the Media Business page on Monday about a study released by Time Inc. on pharmaceutical ads misstated the percentage of consumers who said they had been deterred from taking a drug by information provided about side effects.
This would be an expensive option thus combined injectable contraceptives should only be provided where side effects with the IPCs are intolerable.
The 14-item Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) Version 1.4 is a reliable and valid instrument to assess patients' satisfaction with medication, providing scores on four scales – side effects, effectiveness, convenience and global satisfaction.
In the same way that pharmaceutical companies must provide information about side effects in their television and print ads, food companies should also provide details about their products' nutritional content in advertisements.
Konig, a rising star during the 1980's, has complained that her trainers never told her about the nature of the hormones they were providing and ignored side effects like her deepened voice and intensified acne problems.
In general, the new antipsychotics have shown themselves to be at least comparable in efficacy to conventional antipsychotics but with superior tolerability and a more favourable adverse effect profile, providing less extrapyramidal side effects than conventional treatment [8].
Our results demonstrate the successful separation of pathways providing efficacy from side effects in muscular dystrophy.
To provide information of side effects was mentioned as examples of drug information only by a few GPs for both public authorities and the pharmaceutical industry (Table 3).
