Medical utility

An Australian study compared medical utilization and costs in patients with panic disorder, those with social anxiety disorder, and a control group (Rees et al, 1998). Almost half of the panic disorder patients had seen a primary-care physician more than seven times over a 6-month period, compared with 7% of the social phobic patients and none of the control group. The mean costs were A 150, A 60 and A 20 respectively. The patients with panic disorder were treated with antidepressants (39%), benzodiazepines (15%), relaxants (12%), beta-blockers (7%) and other medication (7%). Twenty per cent received no medication. Patients with panic... 

Katon W (1996). Panic disorder relationship to high medical utilization, unexplained physical symptoms, and medical costs. J Clin Psychiatry 57 (suppl. 10), 11-18. 

England.15) Compounds whose medical utility is recognized are placed in one of the other four schedules (II to V), with higher numbers reflecting less stringent control. 

Side effects are commonly seen with the various medications utilized, but more particularly with amphetaminic and tricyclic types of medications. Patients using a high dose of stimulants (defined as > 120 % of the recommended maximum dose... 

Military triage is based on medical need, medical utility, and an additional category, social utility. Social utility is the notion of allocating resources to those who may be the most useful or most valued in a society (Edge Groves, 1994). In the military there is a social utility to treating those with minor injuries quickly because... 

Given the perceived failure of spontaneous reporting systems and the paucity of ADR reports/ some institutions have instituted more active methods of ADR detection to supplement spontaneous reports. Medication order screening has become a common practice in U.S. hospitals. Manual chart reviews and audits and computer programs are used for retrospective/ concurrent/ and prospective medication utilization evaluation. Certain events often prompt an evaluation of a suspected adverse reaction. These include abrupt discontinuation of a medication/ abrupt dosage reduction/ orders for antidotes and emergency medications/ orders for special tests or serum drug concentration measurements/ and abnormal results from laboratory tests and medical procedures. 

The elderly are also more likely to suffer from chronic disease and multiple disease states and therefore receive long-term treatment with medications. Considering the high medication utilization of geriatric patients, it is pertinent to focus on geriatric dosing and dosage forms. 

The second most common cardiovascular effect is an increase in heart rate and pulse rate (Kelly, Foltin, Fischman, 1993). Both of these effects last for about an hour, and each appears to be dose related. The peak heart rate occurs around 20 minutes after smoking. In addition to these effects, blood pressure tends to become slightly elevated. No evidence indicates that these effects create any permanent damage within the normal cardiovascular system (Institute of Medicine, 1982 Workshop on the Medical Utility of Marijuana, 1997). 

Workshop on the Medical Utility of Marijuana. (1997). Report to the Director, National Institutes of Health, by the Ad Hoc group of c.xperts. Washington, DC National Institutes of Health. 

Items of medical utility may be offered or provided free of charge, modest value and beneficial to the provision of medical services and... 

Helping to standardize care by developing protocols and procedures for bone marrow transplant medication utilization... 

National Institute of Health (1997) Report from a workshop on the medical utility of marijuana, 19-20 February 1997 p 6. http //www.parklandtrading.com/users/thc4ms/pdf/ 0211.pdf... 

Compounds available in the United States are listed in Table 1. Whereas they vary in degree, all of them share similar liabilities of cardiovascular side effects, the potential for central nervous system (CNS) stimulation, the development of tolerance, and abuse potential. All, with the exception of mazindol, are derivatives of phenethylamine. The introduction of an oxygen atom on the p-carbon of the side chain tends to reduce CNS stimulant properties without decreasing the anorectic activity. Following the Federal Controlled Drug Act of 1970, drugs were classified into one of five schedules according to medical utility and abuse potential. 

Demonstrating medical utility developing tools for evaluating efficacy, better clinical trial designs and efficacy standards. 

Expanded porphyrins as synthetic materials with potential medical utility 99PAC2009. 

For example, the evidence of medical utility that a patent offers may be slight. It suffices if some compounds of the invention prove weakly active merely in a particular in vitro biochemical assay using isolated animal cells. 

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