After this, the respondents were asked to specify the prescription drugs they had used during the last seven days.
The "Prescription Management Ordinance" promulgated by the Chinese government in 2007 specified that prescriptions should be written using generic names or INN (international nonproprietary names).
All state laws currently permit a physician to specify that a prescription should be dispensed as written; however, pharmacist substitution practices vary widely by state for prescriptions for which a physician has not specified this requirement.
She said she did not believe the A.M.A.'s self-policing measure would provide enough protection, partly because even if doctors specify that their prescription records not be available to drug sales representatives, the information would still be sold to drug companies for other marketing and research purposes.
The veterinarian's prescription specifies that the drug is intended to treat the species and condition(s) for which the substance is listed in Appendix A. The drug is not intended for use in food-producing animals and that it is compounded under cGMP.
We defined generic substitution as receiving a product other than that specified on the prescription.
Patients may not have taken their medications as specified on their prescription claim or may have received occasional samples of medications without the presence of a claim.
Because a diagnosis was not specified in a prescription record, exenatide twice daily and liraglutide were assumed to be prescribed only for patients with type 2 diabetes and according to their product labeling.
Refills-PER is recorded at zero if no refills are allowed or at 99 if the prescription specifies a duration of validity instead of a number of refills allowed.
Diagnosis was not specified in the prescription and thus not evident in the database, requiring the assumption that exenatide twice daily and liraglutide are prescribed according to their indication, ie, only to patients with type 2 diabetes.
