Title |
Licit prescription drug use in a Swedish population according to age, gender and socioeconomic status after adjusting for level of multi-morbidity
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-575 |
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Authors |
Kristine Thorell, Jessica Skoog, Andrzej Zielinski, Lars Borgquist, Anders Halling |
Abstract |
There is a great variability in licit prescription drug use in the population and among patients. Factors other than purely medical ones have proven to be of importance for the prescribing of licit drugs. For example, individuals with a high age, female gender and low socioeconomic status are more likely to use licit prescription drugs. However, these results have not been adjusted for multi-morbidity level. In this study we investigate the odds of using licit prescription drugs among individuals in the population and the rate of licit prescription drug use among patients depending on gender, age and socioeconomic status after adjustment for multi-morbidity level. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 1 | 33% |
Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Malaysia | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 30 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 6 | 19% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 16% |
Student > Bachelor | 4 | 13% |
Researcher | 4 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 10% |
Other | 4 | 13% |
Unknown | 5 | 16% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 26% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 13% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 10% |
Psychology | 2 | 6% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 6% |
Other | 4 | 13% |
Unknown | 8 | 26% |