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Drug-Related Hospital Visits and Admissions Associated with Laboratory or Physiologic Abnormalities-A Systematic-Review
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Countless studies have demonstrated that many emergency-room visits and hospital admissions are drug-related and that a significant proportion of these drug-related visits (DRVs) are preventable. It has not been previously ...
Genetic variants associated with warfarin dose in African-American individuals: a genome-wide association study
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Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
Summary BackgroundVKORC1 and CYP2C9 are important contributors to warfarin dose variability, but explain less variability for individuals of African descent than for those of European or Asian descent. We aimed to identify ...
Evidence-based healthcare practice in Qatar: A need to move forward
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2013 , Article)
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is considered the gold standard approach to therapeutic decision-making in modern medicine. It was first described in the 1990s as a way to improve patient outcomes by promoting rational ...
Pharmaceutical care in the Arabic-speaking Middle East: literature review and country informant feedback
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2013 , Article)
The philosophy and practice of pharmaceutical care (PC) has challenged Middle Eastern pharmacists to embrace a new paradigm that focuses on outcomes of care rather than products or tasks. Although the application of PC was ...
Further steps in the development of pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, and health technology assessment in central and Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Africa
(2013 , Article)
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Stages of change and health-related quality of life among employees of an institution
(2013 , Article)
Background Transtheoretical Model of change has been used successfully in promoting behaviour change. Objective To examine the relationships between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) scores with the stages of change ...
Scale development on consumer behavior toward counterfeit drugs in a developing country: A quantitative study exploiting the tools of an evolving paradigm
(2013 , Article)
Background: Although desperate need and drug counterfeiting are linked in developing countries, little research has been carried out to address this link, and there is a lack of proper tools and methodology. This study ...
Physicians' perceptions of medical representative visits in Yemen: A qualitative study
(2013 , Article)
Background: The pharmaceutical industry invests heavily in promotion, and it uses a variety of promotional strategies to influence physicians' prescribing decisions. Within this context, medical representatives (MRs) are ...
A case report from Nepalese community pharmacy on levofloxacin induced severe abdominal pain
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Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
A 46-year-old female patient developed severe abdominal pain shortly after taking levofloxacin, 1000mg for acute bacterial sinusitis. The pain started after taking the first dose of levofloxacin and became worse after the ...
Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of fluconazole, posaconazole and voriconazole for antifungal prophylaxis in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia undergoing first consolidation chemotherapy
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Oxford University Press
, 2013 , Article)
Background: Fluconazole, posaconazole and voriconazole are used prophylactically in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). This study evaluated the clinical and economic outcomes of these agents when used in AML ...