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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"drug utilisation"”.
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Determinants Of Drug Utilisation During Childhood
… is a neglected area in terms of rational use of drugs. Wide differences have been observed in children’s exposure to drugs between and within countries and regions. The aim of the current thesis is to investigate the determinants of drug prescription in paediatrics. Pharmacoepidemiology and the …
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Prescribing patterns of antiretroviral drugs in the private health care sector in South Africa : a drug utilisation review
… infected do not have access to even the basic drugs needed to treat HIV-related infections and other conditions (Wikipedia, 2004:3). The relative high price of many of the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and diagnostics on the other hand are one of the main barriers to their availability in …
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Evaluation and management of hospital antibiotic use
Antimicrobials are unique drugs in that they target "infectious" or "transferable"<br/>diseases. There is considerable evidence linking increasing antimicrobial use with <br/>increasing resistance. Resistant bacteria do not know the boundaries, either between countries or within a society between …
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Predicting district level HIV prevalence in South Africa using medicine ordering data
… An alternative methodology for estimating drug utilisation and predicting HIV estimates was explored by using medicine ordering data as the primary input for analysis from 2020 to 2022. Two objectives were set out, the first being a drug utilisation analysis aimed at approximating the …
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Carbapenem and piperacillin-tazobactam prescribing in a hospital setting in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia : a mixed methodology study
… andcountries in promoting the appropriate utilisation of antimicrobials. Studying broadspectrum antimicrobial utilisation and the determinants of broad-spectrumantimicrobial prescribing can assist in developing strategies and policies to improvethe local prescribing practice for these …
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A retrospective analysis of the prescribing patterns of isotretinoin
… their life (Wolff et al., 2005:2). The systemic drug isotretinoin is the only acne drug which has an influence on all the pathophysiological factors of this highly prevalent disease and is considered as the most effective treatment for acne, although it should be limited to the treatment of …