In a US survey, caregivers reported utilisation of medications for attention deficit disorder, anxiety, hyperactivity, mood swings, anger, depression, seizures, self-injury, or sleep disorders [ 14].
Objective 3: To identify potential differentials in the utilisation of medications during pregnancy and the interpregnancy periods, calculations performed in relation to objective 1 will be stratified by indigenous status and SES.
30 Given that a significant amount of hospital costs are fixed in the short run, the economic viability of quality improvement programmes that reduce CLABSIs rests on two things: deploying the bed-days freed by shorter lengths of stay for new admissions and reducing utilisation of medications and supplies.
The survey included diagnostic enquiry regarding primary headaches and further enquiry into headache-attributed burden and utilisation of medical services and medication for headache.
From the perspective of community medicine, the identification of an imbalance between needs and utilisation of psychotropic medication raises questions about equity in access to healthcare resources.
Hypertension and diabetes mellitus were defined as per standard criteria and by the utilisation of relevant medication.
Third, we were able to accurately assess actual utilisation of these medications rather than mere prescription events by directly questioning participants and by examining medication containers.
This distinction is important because of the differential impact on the utilisation of new medications.
Our premise was that widespread publicity about these adverse effects, in the public media and in professional publications and journals, would influence utilisation of other medications in the same class as the implicated drug(s), and especially influence more cautious prescribing behaviour for medications introduced after these adverse events in the same drug class es).
PROMPT consists of 22 statements relating to potentially inappropriate use of medications and has been developed for utilisation in prescribing or dispensing datasets in the absence of clinical information.
