prescribed medication
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprescribedandmedication
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prescribed
adjective
uk/prɪˈskraɪbd/us/prɪˈskraɪbd/
set by a rule ...
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medication
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌmed.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌmed.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a medicine, or a set of medicines or drugs, used to improve a particular condition ...
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(Definition ofprescribedandmedicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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An observation represents the underuse of aprescribedmedication.
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In this instance, theprescribedmedicationis the environmental factor.
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Of these, 1967 (27.8 %) and 1118 (30.8 %) respectively tookprescribedmedication.
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Evidence suggests that older people are often ill-informed about theirprescribedmedication.
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Furthermore, such criteria typically do not take into consideration the patients' adherence to theprescribedmedication.
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Tolerance of and adherence toprescribedmedicationwere recorded at each visit.
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Participants gave me a range of explanations for their non-concordance withprescribedmedication.
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He alludes to cases in which physicians, or self-proclaimed physicians, recklesslyprescribedmedicationbased only on symptoms they observed.
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Only 32 (66%) of women who wereprescribedmedicationactually took it, and only 24 women took the dose prescribed.
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Almost all those in the facility and half of the non-facility inmates reported daily use ofprescribedmedication.
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Slightly more than 50 % assessed adherence to scheduled appointments, while the remaining studies assessed adherence toprescribedmedication.
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Information aboutprescribedmedication, length of contact with services and recent history of symptom fluctuations was taken from hospital notes.
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He wasprescribedmedicationand released back into the community.
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Within weeks, they are put on regularprescribedmedication.
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At t2 the proportion of persons takingprescribedmedicationwas lowest for cirrhosis (25.0 %) and osteoarthritis (35.9 %), and highest for stroke (100 %).
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Conversely, as no study systematically assessed adherence toprescribedmedication, some subjects classified as users may have been non-users because of poor compliance.
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At each visit, non-compliance was defined as the use by the patient of 70% of theprescribedmedication, unless early withdrawal occurred.
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It is not advisable for patients to stop theirprescribedmedicationwithout seeing their doctor.
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We have received no representations about the availability of urgentlyprescribedmedication.
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It is essential that the sufferers continue with theirprescribedmedication.
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It can be an adverse reaction toprescribedmedication.
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Or the patient may be too ill or too disorganised to keep appointments or to takeprescribedmedication.
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Secondly, there is the frequency of deaths involving people on prescription drugs, such as methadone and other medicallyprescribedmedication.
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He has since been diagnosed as suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and has beenprescribedmedication.
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