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September 10, 2007 | Journal Article
The present article considered cardiovascular patients' adherence to physicians' medication recommendations. Nonadherence was defined as following the suggested medicine regiment 75 percent or less of the time. Study participants were 1,015 outpatie ...
August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Treatment Research Institute compared the therapeutic practices of office-based clinicians who treat patients with substance use disorders to those of clinicians in an outpatient program at a community clinic.
November 13, 2006 | Journal Article
Tamoxifen citrate has been approved for primary reduction of breast cancer risk since 1998, but studies suggest that its use for primary prevention is limited. The authors report on a national survey mailed to 350 primary care physicians regarding p ...
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Modest evidence from controlled clinical studies supports the use of antipsychotic medications to treat severe disruptive behaviors, such as autism and Tourette syndrome, in children and adolescents. However, the use of these drugs to treat milder b ...
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Women in Haiti use drugs that are harmful to their unborn child, sometimes in an attempt to induce abortion.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Finding means of improving patients' adherence to treatments is a critical aspect of improving outcomes. This retrospective cohort study assessed the proportion of patients who filled their initial prescriptions for a diabetes medication.
August 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Physician response to patient reports of potential adverse drug reaction (ADR) was the focus of this study. Patient reports of ADR were conceptualized as a form of postmarketing surveillance for rates of ADR that may be underreported in clinical tri ...
September 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertisements for HIV antiretrovirals are controversial and have been criticized in the past for including deceptive images and underplaying HIV drug limitations. The authors sought to describe the state o ...
September 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Provisions of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 are intended to foster electronic prescribing by requiring standards for interoperability and by permitting third parties to offset implementation costs. ...
August 9, 2004 | Journal Article
The most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms is hormone therapy, which also decreases the risk of osteoporosis and colorectal cancer. However, hormone therapy increases the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, pulmonary embolism and breas ...