Medicines for cardiovascular health : are they used appropriately? / Susana Senes, Elizabeth Penm
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- Senes, Susana
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- Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, c2007
- vii, 81 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781740246897
- ISSN:
- 1323-9236
- Series:
- Cardiovascular disease series ; no. 27
- Summary:
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Medicines for cardiovascular health: are they used appropriately? covers trends in prescription and supply of these medicines, patterns of supply by geographic area and patient socioeconomic level, whether patients take medicines as intended, adverse events associated with these medicines, initiatives to improve the quality of use of medicines, and government expenditure on cardiovascular medicines. This report will be of interest to policy makers, health professionals and researchers in the field, as well as to the broader community.
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- 2.1 Q uality se of m edicines. 2
- 2.2 Opportunities and challenges for quality use of medicines
- 2,3 Medicines and cardiovascular disease 5
- 3 Use of cardivascular medicines for any health condition
- 3.1 Supply of cardiovascular medicines in the community
- 3.2 Cardiovascular medicines prescribed in general practice 15
- SUse of m edicines for ardiovascular di ea 18
- SQuality se of cardiovascular m edicines
- 5.1 Medicines prescribed for cardiovascular disease 20
- 5.2 Concordance with medicines 27
- 5.3 National Prescribing Service initiatives 35
- 5.4 National Institute of Clinical Studies initiatives 37
- 5.5 National Primary Care Collaboratives 38
- 5.6 Section 100 initiative : 39
- 5.7 Drug-adverse events 39
- xpenditue on cardiovascular medici 45
- 7 D iscussion 48
- p p en d ix 2
- A p p en d ix tables 52
- Appendix figures : 5
- The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification system, 58
- D ata sources 63
- M eth o d s 64
- National bodies with responsibility for quality use of medicines 71.
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- "May 2007".
- "AIHW cat. no. CVD 36".
- Bibliography: p. 76-79.
- Also available online. Address as at 3/7/07: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/cvd/mfchatua/mfchatua.pdf.
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