Sentence examples for successive prescriptions from inspiring English sources

The study included new users of metformin or sulfonylurea medicines defined as those with at least two successive prescriptions of the same medicine and no dispensings of these medicines in the 12 months prior to the index prescription.

In the event of non-overlap, we allowed for a 30 day grace period between two successive prescriptions.

Based on previous work conducted on ADHD within the UK setting [ 21], an interval of more than 6 months between successive prescriptions was classified as treatment cessation.

To ensure that our samples comprised those people who were most likely taking the drug, we restricted our populations of glucocorticoid users to those who received at least two successive prescriptions for glucocorticoids.

The duration of continuous use of an AED was defined by successive prescriptions for the AED class of interest with a grace period of 90 days added to the end of a prescription to allow for refill time.

We deemed patients to have discontinued treatment if more than 100 days lapsed between successive prescriptions; in such cases, observation was extended for 100 days from the date of the last prescription.

Switches between mesalazine formulations were identified on the basis of a change to an alternative mesalazine formulation between successive prescription refills.

We identified continuous use based on successive prescription for the same drug, requiring that prescription refills be issued within 1.5 times the days supplied by the previous prescription or 10 days, whichever was greater.

For each patient, we defined a period of continuous use of each statin based on successive refills of prescriptions for the same statin within 1.5 times the duration of the preceding prescription.

The odds ratio decreased slightly with increasing duration since the first ephedrine/caffeine prescription (for each successive step, OR = 0.89, 95% CI: 0.82, 0.97).

The CHANGE-2 trial is a three arm cluster-randomized controlled trial that measures antibiotic prescription rates over three successive winter periods and reverts to administrative data of the German statutory health insurance company AOK.