The Hunter Area Toxicology Service is a regional toxicology unit situated at the Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital that services a population of about 350 000 people and is a tertiary referral centre for a further 150 000 [23]. All poisoning presentations to emergency departments in the region are either admitted to the unit or notified to the Hunter Area Toxicology Service and entered prospectively into a clinical database. A validated preformatted admission sheet is used by medical staff to record the history and physical examination at the time of admission [24]. This and additional information from the medical record is entered into the database by two trained personnel, blinded to any study hypotheses, at the time of patient discharge [25]. There was no review or further information retrieved from medical records after formulation of the research question. (more…)
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Prescriber surveys
Surveys conducted in 1990-91 and 1998-99 by the Family Medicine Research Centre have shown the increasing prominence of depression as a problem managed in general practice.6,7 In 1998-99, depression ranked as the fourth most common general practice problem, compared with the tenth in 1990-91. The rate of patient encounters involving depression per 100 encounters has increased from 2.1 in 1990-91 to 3.5 in 1998-99. In 1998-99, compared with 1990-91, antidepressants were more likely to be prescribed per every 100 encounters for depression (58.4 prescriptions [95% CI, 56.1-60.8] v 52.3 prescriptions [95% CI, 49.2-55.5]). (more…)
Prescription and Sales Data
Prescription dispensing data were obtained from the database maintained by the DUSC that monitors the dispensing of prescription medicines through community pharmacies in Australia.2 No data on public hospital use are included in this database. The measurement units used are either prescription volumes or the number of defined daily doses (DDDs) per 1000 population per day. The DDD is based on the assumed average daily dose of the drug when used for its main indication by adults. (more…)
RE: Why is GP data so important?
I often Beta tested some of these programs for HCN & let me tell you often
they caused crashes & problems. At one stage as Betatester for MD2 I told
HCN I was happy to continue Betatesting MD2, butcan’t test these data
extraction modules anymore as it makes my system to unstable. (more…)
AMA Discloses Masterfile Physician Data to Pharmaceutical Companies
July 12, 2007 — Recent protests at the American Medical Association (AMA) annual meeting in Chicago brought to the forefront the fact that the AMA has begun disclosing information in its Masterfile, or physician database, to pharmaceutical companies, as reported in a Chicago Tribune news article published June 24. Although the Prescription Project, the National Physicians Alliance, and the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) are protesting the “sales” of these data for pharmaceutical marketing purposes, the AMA calls the financial arrangement “licensure” and notes that physicians have the right to opt out of sharing their personal information. (more…)