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Showing 1 to 20 of 835 for “"prescription"”.
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Predicting prescription patterns
Electronic prescription software is replacing traditional handwritten medication orders. This development however doesn't come without a cost and speed has been one of the most complained about issues. It is important to address this problem and develop methods to reduce the time spent entering …
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The impact of Canadian direct-to-consumer prescription medicine advertising on prescription volume
… using direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medications in an attempt to stimulate sales. While published literature on the impact of DTCA is limited, one study conducted in the United States by Basara (1996) suggested that DTCA has a positive impact on new prescription volume …
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Optimizing Opioid Prescription for Outpatient Surgery
… only and from diversion of unused opioids from prescriptions intended for acute surgical pain. Factors leading to overprescribing by surgeons include historical misinformation about the addictive nature of opioids, societal and governmental expectations, and lack of standard prescribing …
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Optimal trees for prediction and prescription
… We also adapt our approach to the problem of prescription, where the goal is to make optimal prescriptions for each observation. While constructing the tree, our method simultaneously infers the unknown counterfactuals in the data and learns to make optimal prescriptions. This results in a …
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Learning treatment policies for empiric antibiotic prescription
… been established around the world to improve prescription practices, but further optimization of antibiotic usage is still needed. Improvement is particularly necessary in the empiric treatment setting, the period of time immediately after a patient presents with an infection, during which …
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Defensive marketing strategy in the prescription analgesic market
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1982.
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Osteopaths' views on prescription rights: a qualitative pilot study
… is currently considering the advocacy of limited prescription rights for osteopaths. Conclusions: Due to the variety of issues that emerged, further research is warranted. A more extensive survey of the profession is recommended. This minor thesis was written by a post-graduate student as part of …
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Community Perceptions of Prescription Drug Abuse in Eastern Kentucky.
<p>Personal interviews exploring attitudes toward prescription drug abuse were completed by 17 residents over 18 years of age from Kentucky's Pike and Letcher counties. In respect to prescription drug abuse research nationwide, much research has been conducted in eastern Kentucky; however, there …
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America's Hidden and Ignored Drug Problem: Prescription Drug Abuse
… which started in the very late 1990's, is prescription drug abuse. This new epidemic not only affects the medical industry, but the criminal justice community as well. Further, in terms of prescription narcotics, primary research and media coverage into this topic revealed that numerous …
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Factors associated with co-prescription of opioids and gabapentinoids
… Tayside and Fife who had received at least one prescription of an opioid, with corresponding prescribing, healthcare, clinical and socio-demographic information, was linked with routine data on healthcare outcomes. Factors associated with co-prescribing of opioids and gabapentinoids were …
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Entanglement entropy, the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription, and conformal maps
… the concepts underpinning the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for entanglement entropy in a holographic theory. We begin by constructing entanglement entropy in finite-dimensional quantum systems, and defining the boundary at infinity of a bulk spacetime. This is sufficient for a naïve application …
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Essays on prescription drug benefits in Medicare managed care
… thesis, I estimate a structural demand model for prescription drug benefits by Medicare beneficiaries using data from the Medicare HMO program. I then use the utility parameter estimates to explore other questions of interest relating to the elderly's demand for prescription drug benefits. In …
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Pooling and segmentation to improve primary care prescription management
… develop a quantitative network flow model of the prescription management process, including metrics for the yield of prescription requests, excess requests for chronic & stable medications, and prescriptions that overflow from scheduled appointments. The model is used to estimate the impact of …
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Hybrid flow shop scheduling with prescription constraints on jobs
… problem with specific constraints, particularly prescription constraints on the jobs. This thesis restates the practical problem as a scheduling problem by doing hypotheses and restrictions. Then, it designs a mathematical model based on time-indexed variables. This model has been implemented in …
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A study of the use of prescription and non-prescription drugs by an elderly population of the Southern Peninsular area of Cape Town
The aims of this research were to establish the drug use patterns of an elderly population in the southern suburbs of the Cape peninsula and to determine the extent of knowledge with respect to their medicines. In addition, the relationship between drug use patterns and medication knowledge and the …
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The Affordable Care Act: a prescription for homeland security preparedness?
Prior to implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), tens of millions of U.S. citizens were without health insurance coverage. Without health insurance, health care can be unaffordable or inaccessible, or both. Our ability to obtain health care is part of the homeland security preparedness …
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