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This was a retrospective cohort study using dispensed drug records from the CegedimRx Data Repository.
As with most retrospective studies using dispensed medications, there is uncertainty with patient compliance.
By separating individuals using dispensed insulin or oral anti-diabetics and those using both, we attempted to distinguish between individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Another strength is the data source using dispensed drugs which is likely to provide a more accurate picture of actual drug consumption than data on prescriptions collected from medical records.
The aim of the current study is to determine the level of psychotropic prescribing in an Irish paediatric population (aged 0 15 years) receiving free medical care over a 10 year period (2002 2011), using dispensed medication data.
By using dispensed drugs as a proxy for diabetes we may have missed those women with untreated diabetes type 2. A Danish cross sectional study based on a population survey found that women with an unhealthy lifestyle were about 1.5-fold more likely to be current users of SSRIs than those with a healthy lifestyle.
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Paraffin which forms the actuating material is filled into an actuation cavity using dispensing methods.
However, using dispensing records to measure adherence in settings with manual record systems has not been widely tested.
Finally, the Project Steering Group also reviewed the prevalence of individual drug use in middle-aged adults using dispensing data from the Enhanced Prescribing Database (EPD) and the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS).
The main limitation of using dispensing data relates to whether the medicine was consumed, or consumed as directed, and we have no information in this study for either of these aspects of use.
To ascertain that the prescriptions were given to treat hypertension, we only used dispensed drugs that were reimbursed, indicating that the drugs were used for a chronic disease.
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