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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"expensive drugs"”.
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A retrospective study to evaluate the efficacy of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) compared to daptomycin or linezolid for the treatment of infections due to methicillin-resistant <i>staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA)
… include Daptomycin and Linezolid, two new, expensive drugs, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole(TMP/SMX), an old, inexpensive agent. Study aims were to compare the clinical efficacy and potential cost savings associated with TMP/SMX use.</p> <p>Methods: A retrospective study was conducted at …
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Bayesian adaptive designs for non-inferiority and dose selection trials.
… and more especially the patients; safer and less expensive drugs can make it to market faster. In this research we present a Bayesian approach to determining if an experimental treatment is non-inferior to an active control treatment within a clinical trial that includes a placebo arm. We …
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Identification of potential pathogens of pneumonia in sputum samples from adult patients at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
… isolates were multidrug resistant (7 of 9 drugs) and were ESBL positive. About 71% of the 146 samples tested using PCR yielded human cytomegalovirus 24.3% (44/181), K. pneumoniae 17.7% (32/181), H. influenzae non-type b 16.0% (29/181), S. pneumoniae and S. aureus 9.4% (17/181) each. Other …
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Identification of potential pathogens of pneumonia in sputum samples from adult patients at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
… isolates were multidrug resistant (7 of 9 drugs) and were ESBL positive. About 71% of the 146 samples tested using PCR yielded human cytomegalovirus 24.3% (44/181), K. pneumoniae 17.7% (32/181), H. influenzae non-type b 16.0% (29/181), S. pneumoniae and S. aureus 9.4% (17/181) each. Other …
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Evaluation of the costs of managing cutaneous adverse drug reactions to first-line TB therapy in South African TB patients
… of effective TB control programmes. However, TB drugs are often associated with adverse drug reactions (ADR) that affect treatment adherence and cure. Cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADR) are more commonly associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/TB co-infection, occurring in up to …
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Los clusters como mecanismo para la generación de economías a escala en el sector de medicamentos de alto costo en Colombia
La presente investigación tiene por objeto considerar los cluster en la industria farmacéutica Colombiana, como un mecanismo para la disminución de los sobrecostos de los medicamentos, que han impactado de forma importante, entre otras causas, al sistema de salud, con unos recobros (por concepto de …