Disease relevance of Prescriptions, Drug

• Apparent suicidal carbon monoxide poisonings with concomitant prescription drug overdoses [1].
• RESULTS: Inactive persons were significantly (P < 0.05) more likely to be women, older (75+), have functional limitations, be underweight (BMI < 20) or overweight (BMI > 25), have severe pain, or not have prescription drug insurance coverage [2].
• The Act ushers in a new Medicare prescription drug benefit, revitalizes Medicare Advantage plans and promotes new approaches to care of Medicare beneficiaries with chronic illness [3].
• INTRODUCTION: As prescription drug expenditures increase, third-party payors are increasingly scrutinizing costs and reimbursement guidelines, such as for medications that treat chronic conditions that are not necessarily directly life threatening (i.e., obesity, nicotine addiction, and erectile dysfunction) [4].
• Common mental health problems in geriatric practice. Part I: Dementia, depression, anxiety, and prescription drug toxicity [5].

Psychiatry related information on Prescriptions, Drug

• Through the Part D drug program, Medicare has assumed responsibility for the prescription drug needs of beneficiaries and, consequently, for an important component of mental health treatment: psychotropic drugs [6].
• Logistic regressions were conducted to assess the impact of demographics, life experiences, and adolescent substance use on smoking, heavy drinking, prescription drug misuse, marijuana use, and cocaine use at 35 years of age [7].
• OBJECTIVE: To estimate the direct (medical and prescription drug) and indirect (work loss) costs of children treated for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their family members [8].
• Maternal characteristics that were associated with an increase in both over-the-counter and prescription drug use were being white, smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day, using alcohol, using caffeine, and smoking marijuana [9].
• CONCLUSION: The pharmacist can assist the consumer with the selection of an OTC smoking cessation product and serve as an informational resource to consumers and physicians desiring information on prescription drug products for smoking cessation [10].

High impact information on Prescriptions, Drug

• Among prescription drug users, 16% also took an herbal/supplement; the rate of concurrent use was highest for fluoxetine users, at 22% [11].
• RESULTS--Assuming the Medicare-approved charge for a follow-up visit ($21.98), it is less expensive to begin therapy with a prescription drug only if the efficacy rate of miconazole is less than 55%; this threshold efficacy rate varied from 26% (for a $0 total cost of the follow-up visit) to 79% (for an $89 total cost of the follow-up visit) [12].
• A nicotine gum has been approved as a prescription drug to help smokers stop smoking [13].
• Brain fluvoxamine concentration in the children was lower, consistent with a lower dose/body mass drug prescription; when brain concentration was adjusted for dose/mass, age effects were no longer significant [14].
• Intravenous methylphenidate abuse. Prototype for prescription drug abuse [15].

Anatomical context of Prescriptions, Drug

• Blood and sputum were collected before clarithromycin treatment and then again 3, 6 and 12 months after the drug prescription [16].
• [carisoprodol structure: see text] Carisoprodol is a widely used skeletal muscle relaxant and analgesic and is available as a prescription drug [17].

Associations of Prescriptions, Drug with chemical compounds

• Soon after amyl nitrite (the prototype of this group) became a prescription drug, legally produced substitutes appeared and were sold as room odorizers [18].
• Efficacy data suggest that loperamide is more effective than the prescription drug diphenoxylate and an over-the-counter bismuth subsalicylate preparation [19].
• Benzodiazepine users and nonusers were identified through a review of 4 months' prescription drug claims [20].
• The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) raised payment levels for established Medicare Advantage (private) local plans and would-be regional preferred provider organizations (PPOs) [21].
• Nifedipine [3,5-pyridinedicarboxylic acid, 1,4-dihydro-2, 6-dimethyl-4-(2-nitrophenyl)-dimethyl ester] is a calcium channel blocker that has been widely used as a prescription drug for patients with hypertension [22].

Gene context of Prescriptions, Drug

• All had full prescription drug coverage, including NSAIDs and selective COX-2 inhibitors [23].
• Since, their introduction, COX (cyclooxygenase enzyme)-2 specific inhibitors have become a rapidly growing segment of the prescription drug market [24].
• DISCUSSION: Drug prescription was considerably more common in patients labelled with asthma or COPD plus asthma than in patients with COPD [25].
• Thirteen percent had taken at least one prescription drug and 21.5% had taken at least one over-the-counter (OTC) drug in the previous 2 wk [26].
• The study outcomes were asthma-related hospitalizations, GP visits, and prescription drug costs during the 12-month follow-up period for patients with and without physician-diagnosed AR [27].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Prescriptions, Drug

• Spirometry was also less common in patients with COPD but had a distinct influence on the frequency of drug prescription [25].
• This intervention may be a model for future medication therapy management services provided by prescription drug plans under Medicare Part D for patients in long-term-care settings and possibly ambulatory patients [28].

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