Patients stratified by the eight dispensing patterns were presented in chronological order when they were initially dispensed to analyze time trends of dispensing patterns.
The preceding are all classical CMA-type measures in that they do not account for the timing of the dispensing events.
^refers to whether the timing of the dispensing (actual date dispensed) is taken into account in the calculations or is ignored.
For example, instead of dispensing two units of a drug, a pump would dispense 22 units.
Living cells (i.e., mouse 3T3-J2 fibroblast) were dispensed with different dispensing pressures in order to evaluate the effect of dispensing process on cell viability and proliferation.
Covariates included sex, age, year of dispensing, setting of prescription and dispensing, and drugs dispensed.
Workload - the types and amount of dispensing conducted, hours of work, and approximate items dispensed monthly.
The computerised medication-dispensing histories contain data regarding dispensed medications, type of prescriber, dispensing date, dispensed amount of medication, prescribed dosage and length of prescription.
Dispensed drugs are registered by the Anatomical Therapeutic Classification (ATC) system with information on date of dispensing and amount dispensed available.
Use of pharmacy dispensing data to quantify the amount and timing of opioid use also has limitations because it requires the assumption that women consumed all the dispensed opioids in the interval for which they were filled.
