In the case of those prescribed glucocorticoids with no record of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome, this period was restricted to that during which they were prescribed the drug.
Veterans might have retained drugs beyond the period for which they were prescribed or received additional drugs from non-VHA prescribers and subsequently took larger doses than indicated by the prescribers' instructions.
Another way to look at it is that Cronulla took the medicine they were prescribed.
She didn't say what they were prescribed for, but they were causing her to walk and eat in her sleep.
They recommended close monitoring of young people on antidepressants, regardless of what drugs they were prescribed, especially at the start of treatment.
The key question was, are these differences a result of taking varenicline, or is it just that patients prescribed it had a higher risk of these events even before they were prescribed treatment?
The lead author, Dr. L. Kristin Newby of Duke University and her colleagues wanted to see whether statins would be more beneficial if they were prescribed when the patients were still in hospitals, rather than after they were released.
They were tested for S.T.I.s and U.T.I.s; they were prescribed birth-control pills and antibiotics; they were fitted for diaphragms and I.U.D.s and cervical caps; they learned how to check their breasts for lumps.
Moreover, audits are now usually limited to identifying financial irregularities, but Mr. Sanders said they should also be used to verify that children are receiving the education services they were prescribed, and from qualified teachers and therapists.
His investigation joins a growing movement among some physiologists and doctors to consider and study exercise as a formal medicine, with patients given a prescription and their progress monitored, as it would be if they were prescribed a pill.
Patients were considered to be in treatment for each block in which they were prescribed buprenorphine at any point.
