In case isotretinoin dispensings that were pooled together had different lengths, the length of the single dispensing with the longest duration was used.
Blunt measures such as passing or failing a licensure examination, or revoking/suspending a license after a single dispensing error fosters anxiety amongst professionals and potentially leads to behaviours where learning needs are actually hidden from educators, employers or regulators.
CMA2, CMA4, and CMA6 require only a single dispensing to trigger the calculation, and for our data could be calculated for 83%% of the population.
They have the further added advantage that they can be computed for more people since they only require a single dispensing event to be defined.
If multiple dispenses occurred at a single dispenser within 4 s of each other, only one dispense event was counted.
All reaction components except reaction starter (ADP) were pipetted into the wells of a 96 well plate (black, flat UV-transparent bottom, Greiner) individually using single-dispense-pipetting for maximum pipetting precision.
We excluded 780 patients who experienced primary failure of metformin in the first 6 months of therapy, defined as 1) receipt of only a single metformin dispense, 2) receipt of less than a 90-day supply, or 3) addition of a second anti-hyperglycemic agent.
We used the following diabetes medication categories for any single medication dispensed for >30 days during year 4: "sulfonylureas" for patients dispensed sulfonylureas (but not metformin), "metformin" for those dispensed metformin (but not sulfonylureas), "sulfonylureas and metformin" for those dispensed both, thiazolidinedione, acarbose, and repaglinide.
In the following, a single nozzle dispensing setup was used to verify simulative values by comparing them with those obtained from experimental investigations.
The single machine dispensed $130 Spectacles to shoppers who made their way down, and went through multiple reloads (trucks came in and refilled the box every 100 pairs or so), with long lines forming throughout the day.
Health problems that are identified from more than one source are assigned to one category; ordered by the following hierarchy; health problems derived from single indication dispensed drugs, medical services claims diagnostic codes and therapeutic indications from electronic prescriptions.
