Prescriptions
Research News and Information

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Clinical foundation for efficient treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.

29 Sep 2009 Only a few decades ago, the entity known as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was unknown and untreated. Now, there is a rush to put literally millions of Americans on continuous positive airway pressure devices. Community practice standards are ... Read more...

African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room.

29 Sep 2009 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are designed to provide comprehensive health care, including primary care to their enrollees. However, HMOs deliver care through a wide variety of physician networks, settings and methods throughout the nation ... Read more...

Development of clinical application for a nutritional prescription support system for total parenteral/enteral nutrition.

30 Aug 2009 One of the important roles of pharmacists as members of a nutrition support team is nutritional prescription support. We developed a nutritional prescription support system (NPSS) that facilitates prescription support and analysis and evaluated its ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Prescriptions'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Prescription standards are necessary to improve health literacy and medication safety. 30 Oct 2009
• Clinical foundation for efficient treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. 29 Sep 2009
• African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room. 29 Sep 2009
• ["Many help many"--better compliance?] 30 Aug 2009
• Development of clinical application for a nutritional prescription support system for total parenteral/enteral nutrition. 30 Aug 2009
• Expanding antiretroviral options in resource-limited settings--a cost-effectiveness analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• Repeated prevalence studies on antibiotic use in Latvia, 2003-2007. 18 Aug 2009
• [Contract instead of regress : Possibilities for mutually agreed termination of benchmark checking procedure for prescriptions] 30 Jul 2009
• Stoma care nursing management: cost implications in community care. 30 Jul 2009
• Time-varying perturbations can distinguish among integrate-to-threshold models for perceptual decision making in reaction time tasks. 30 Jul 2009
• Treatment of metastatic breast cancer: a large observational study on adherence to French prescribing guidelines and financial cost of the anti-HER2 antibody trastuzumab. 30 Jul 2009
• Age and height predict neuropathy risk in patients with HIV prescribed stavudine. 26 Jul 2009
• Selegiline shortage: Causes and costs of a generic drug shortage. 19 Jul 2009
• Do guidelines change the way we treat? Studying prescription behaviour among private practitioners before and after the publication of the German Psoriasis Guidelines. 14 Jul 2009
• [Retrospective study of adverse events of Polygonum multiflorum and risk control] 29 Jun 2009
• Summary of ASHP/IDSA/SIDP vancomycin monitoring recommendations: a focus on osteomyelitis. 29 Jun 2009
• Adding diagnosis codes to prescriptions: lessons learned from a quality improvement project. 29 Jun 2009
• The prescription of insulin pen devices versus syringes for older people with diabetes. 29 Jun 2009
• Prescription of antipsychotic medication to patients at ultra high risk of developing psychosis. 29 Jun 2009
• Prescription opioid aberrant behaviors: a pilot study of sex differences. 29 Jun 2009

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Prescriptions'

Definition: Directions written for the obtaining and use of PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; MEDICAL DEVICES; corrective LENSES; and a variety of other medical remedies.

Descriptor UI: D055656

Alternative terms: Prescriptions; Prescription; Prescriptions, Non-Drug; Non-Drug Prescription; Non-Drug Prescriptions; Prescription, Non-Drug; Prescriptions, Non Drug; Prescriptions, Nondrug; Nondrug Prescription; Nondrug Prescriptions; Prescription, Nondrug;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; nursing; statistics & numerical data; standards; veterinary;

Tree Number: N02.421.668.778;

History Note: 2009, 1963-1977