Identifying how age and gender influence prescription drug use in a primary health care environment in Catalonia, Spain

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-417

  Fernández Liz, Eladio ^a   Modamio, Pilar ^b   Catalán, Arantxa ^a   Lastra, Cecilia F ^b   Rodríguez, Teresa ^c   Mariño, Eduardo L ^b  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Research Institute University Primary Care IDIAP Jordi Gol   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Cost; Drug use; Gender; Prevalence; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EXPECTORANT AGENT; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; MACROLIDE; MUCOLYTIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PENICILLIN G; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEX FACTORS; SPAIN;

EID: 39849085815     PISSN: 03065251     EISSN: 13652125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2007.03029.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Schirm E, van den Berg P, Gebben H, Sauer P, De Jong-van den Berg L. Drug use of children in the community assessed through pharmacy dispensing data. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2000 50 : 473 8.
2. Roe CM, McNamara AM, Motheral BR. Gender and age-related prescription drug use patterns. Ann Pharmacother 2002 36 : 30 9.
3. Sleator DJD. Towards accurate prescribing analysis in general practice: accounting for the effects of practice demography. Br J Gen Pract 1993 43 : 102 6.
4. Prescribing Support Unit. ASTRO-PUs. Revision report. 2001. Available at http://www.ic.nhs.uk/psu (last accessed: 26 February 2007).
5. Lloyd DCEF, Harris CM, Roberts DJ. Specific therapeutic age-sex related prescribing units (STAR-PUs): weightings for analysing general practices' prescribing in England. BMJ 1995 311 : 991 4.
6. Roberts SJ, Harris CM. Age, sex and temporary resident originated prescribing units (ASTRO-PUs): new weightings for analysing prescribing of general practices in England. BMJ 1993 307 : 485 8.
7. Rice N, Dixon P, Lloyd DCEF, Roberts D. Derivation of a needs based capitation formula for allocating prescribing budgets to health authorities and primary care groups in England: regression analysis. BMJ 2000 320 : 284 8.
8. Servei Català de la Salut. Xxxxx. 2002. Available at http://www10.gencat.net/catsalut/cat/index.htm (last accessed: 27 June 2007).
9. Scrivener G, Lloyd D. Allocating census data to general practice populations: implicatins for study of prescribing variations at practice level. BMJ 1995 311 : 163 5.
10. Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya. Statistical Yearbook of Catalonia. Available at http://www.idescat.net (last accessed: 27 June 2007).
11. Institut Català de la Salud. What is the ICS? Available at http://www.gencat.net/ics/infocorp/english.htm (last accessed: 27 June 2007).
12. WHO. Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology (ATC Index with Ddds). Oslo : World Health Organization, 2004.
13. del Rio MC, Prada C, Alvarez FJ. The use of medication by the Spanish population. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 1997 6 : 41 8.
14. Sans S, Paluzie G, Puig T, Balaña L, Balaguer-Vintró I. Prevalencia del consumo de medicamentos en la población adulta de Cataluña. Gac Sanit 2002 16 : 121 30.
15. Jorgensen T, Johansson S, Kennerfalk A, Wallander MA, Svardsudd K. Prescription drug use, diagnoses, and healthcare utilization among the elderly. Ann Pharmacother 2001 35 : 1004 9.
16. Fernández E, Schiaffino A, Rajmil L, Badía X, Segura A. Gender inequalities in health and health care services use in Catalonia (Spain). J Epidemiol Community Health 1999 53 : 218 22.
17. Aronson JK. Over-the-counter medicines. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2004 58 : 231 4.
18. Okechukwu I, Bennett K, Feely J. General practitioners' ranking of evidence-based prescribing quality indicators: a comparative study with a prescription database. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2006 62 : 218 24.
19. van Hulten R, Isacson D, Bakker A, Leufkens HG. Comparing patterns of long-term benzodiazepine use between a Dutch and Swedish community. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2003 12 : 49 53.
20. Helms PJ, Daukes SE, Taylor MW, Simpson C, McLay J. Utility of routinely acquired primary care data for paediatric disease epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2005 59 : 684 90.
21. Bolíbar B, Juncosa S, Martínez C, Pareja C, Pasarin MI, Pujol E, Rosell M. Taxes d'incidència i prevalença a l'atenció primària. Mètodes per a la seva obtenció. Fundació Jordi Gol i Gurina. CatSalut : Departament de Sanitat i Seguretat Social, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2002.
22. Sanz E, Hernandez MA, Kumari M, Ratchina S, Stratchounsky L, Peire MA, Lapeyre-Mestre M, Horen B, Kriska M, Krajnakova H, Momcheva H, Encheva D, Martinez-Mir I, Palop V. Pharmacological treatment of acute otitis media in children. A comparison among seven locations: Tenerife, Barcelona and Valencia (Spain), Toulouse (France), Smolensk (Russia), Bratislava (Slovakia) and Sofia (Bulgaria). Eur J Clin Pharmacol 2004 60 : 37 43.
23. Ekins-Daukes S, McLay JS, Taylor MW, Simpson CR, Helms P. Antibiotic prescribing for children. Too much and too little? Retrospective observational study in primary care. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2003 56 : 92 5.
24. Finkelstein JA, Stille C, Nordin J, Davis R, Raebel MA, Roblin D, Go AS, Smith D, Johnson CC, Kleinman K, Chan KA, Platt R. Increased use of second-generation macrolide antibiotics for children in nine health plans in the United States. Pediatrics 2003 112 : 620 7.
25. Quach C, Collet J-P, Lelorier J. Acute otitis media in children: a retrospective analysis of physician prescribing patterns. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2004 57 : 500 5.
26. Stille LJ, Andrade SE, Huang SS, Nordin J, Raebel MA, Go AS, Chan A, Finkelstein JA. Increased use of second-generation macrolide antibiotics for children in nine health plans in the United States. Pediatrics 2004 114 : 1206 11.
27. Goadsby PJ, Lipton RB, Ferrari MD. Migraine-Current understanding and treatment. N Engl J Med 2002 346 : 257 70.
28. Masia R, Pena A, Marrugat J, Sala J, Vila J, Pavesi M, Covas M, Aubo C, Elosua R. High prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in Gerona, Spain, a province with low myocardial infarction incidence. REGICOR Investigators. J Epidemiol Community Health 1998 52 : 707 15.
29. Tunstall-Pedoe H, Kuulasma K, Mähönen M, Tolonen H, Ruokokoski E, Amouyel P, for the WHO MONICA Project. Contribution of trends in survival and coronary-event rates to changes in coronary heart disease mortality: 10-year results from WHO MONICA Project populations. Lancet 1999 353 : 1547 57.
30. National Osteoporosis Foundation. Osteoporosis: disease statistics: fast facts. 2006. Available at http://www.nof.org/osteoporosis/stats.html (last accessed: 26 February 2007).
31. Gavira Iglesias FJ, Caridad Ocerin JM, Perez del Molino Martin J, Valderrama Gama E, Lopez Perez M, Romero Lopez M, Pavon Aranguren MV, Guerrero Munoz JB. Prevalence and psychosocial impact of urinary incontinence in older people of a Spanish rural population. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2000 55 : M207 14.
32. Starfield B, Lemke KW, Bernhardt T, Foldes SS, Forrest CB, Weiner JP. Comorbidity: implications for the importance of primary care in 'case' management. Ann Fam Med 2003 1 : 8 14.
33. Bruno JJ, Ellis JJ. Herbal use among US elderly: 2002 national health interview survey. Ann Pharmacother 2005 39 : 643 8.
34. Porteous T, Bond C, Hannaford P, Sinclair H. How and why are non-prescription analgesics used in Scotland? Fam Pract 2005 22 : 78 85.
35. Majeed A, Head S. Capitation based prescribing budgets will not work. BMJ 1998 316 : 748 50.