Ongoing Initiatives to Improve the Quality and Efficiency of Medicine Use within the Public Healthcare System in South Africa; A Preliminary Study

Compliance with the primary health care treatment guidelines and the essential medicines list in the management of sexually transmitted infections in correctional centres in South Africa: findings and implications

(2017) Tammy B. Matsitse et al.   Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies

(2017) et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

HEALTH TECHNOLOGY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE FOR PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SUSTAINABILITY

(2017) Augusto Afonso Guerra-Júnior et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE

Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

(2017) Nancy Fullman et al.   LANCET

Healthcare Access and Quality Index based on mortality from causes amenable to personal health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

(2017) Ryan M Barber et al.   LANCET

Antibiotic stewardship hits a home run for patients

(2017) Debra A Goff et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Nonadherence to antihypertensive drugs

(2017) Tadesse Melaku Abegaz et al.   MEDICINE

High adherence to the ‘Wise List’ treatment recommendations in Stockholm: a 15-year retrospective review of a multifaceted approach promoting rational use of medicines

(2017) Jaran Eriksen et al.   BMJ Open

Structure and activities of pharmacy and therapeutics committees among public hospitals in South Africa; findings and implications

(2017) Moliehi Matlala et al.   Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology

Quantitative evaluation of essential medicines lists: the South African case study

(2016) Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting in Africa and a Comparison of Individual Case Safety Report Characteristics Between Africa and the Rest of the World: Analyses of Spontaneous Reports in VigiBase®

(2016) Haggar H. Ampadu et al.   DRUG SAFETY

Evolving Health Expenditure Landscape of the BRICS Nations and Projections to 2025

(2016) Mihajlo Jakovljevic et al.   HEALTH ECONOMICS

Non-adherence to anti-hypertensive medication in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 92443 subjects

(2016) J Ø Nielsen et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN HYPERTENSION

Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

(2016) Stephen S Lim et al.   LANCET

Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

(2016) Haidong Wang et al.   LANCET

Antimicrobial stewardship across 47 South African hospitals: an implementation study

(2016) Adrian J Brink et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The New and Old Europe: East-West Split in Pharmaceutical Spending

(2016) Mihajlo Jakovljevic et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Mortality trends and differentials in South Africa from 1997 to 2012: second National Burden of Disease Study

(2016) Victoria Pillay-van Wyk et al.   Lancet Global Health

Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980–2015: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

(2016) Haidong Wang et al.   Lancet HIV

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Crohn´s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis): Cost of Treatment in Serbia and the Implications

(2016) Marina Kostić et al.   Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Improving access to medicines through centralised dispensing in the public sector: a case study of the Chronic Dispensing Unit in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

(2015) Bvudzai Priscilla Magadzire et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Mortality from adverse drug reactions in adult medical inpatients at four hospitals in South Africa: a cross-sectional survey

(2015) Johannes P. Mouton et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

What Will it Take to Address the Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance?

(2015) Steven J. Hoffman et al.   JOURNAL OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS

Disinvestment and Value-Based Purchasing Strategies for Pharmaceuticals: An International Review

(2015) Bonny Parkinson et al.   PHARMACOECONOMICS

Factors associated with retention in HIV care at Sediba Hope Medical Centre

(2015) Nishana Ramdas et al.   SOUTHERN AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIV MEDICINE

The relevance of systematic reviews on pharmaceutical policy to low- and middle-income countries

(2015) Andrew Lofts Gray et al.   International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy

Economic burden of antibiotic resistance: how much do we really know?

(2014) S. Gandra et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Hypertension among older adults in low- and middle-income countries: prevalence, awareness and control

(2014) P. Lloyd-Sherlock et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Strengthening pharmacovigilance in South Africa

(2014) Ushma Mehta et al.   SAMJ SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL

High prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections among women living in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

(2014) Sarita Naidoo et al.   AIDS Research and Therapy

Multiple policies to enhance prescribing efficiency for established medicines in Europe with a particular focus on demand-side measures: findings and future implications

(2014) Brian Godman et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Variations in criteria regulating treatment with reimbursed biologic DMARDs across European countries. Are differences related to country's wealth?

(2013) Polina Putrik et al.   ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES

Inequities in access to biologic and synthetic DMARDs across 46 European countries

(2013) Polina Putrik et al.   ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES

Personalizing health care: feasibility and future implications

(2013) Brian Godman et al.   BMC Medicine

Interface management of pharmacotherapy. Joint hospital and primary care drug recommendations

(2013) Linda Björkhem-Bergman et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Dabigatran – a case history demonstrating the need for comprehensive approaches to optimize the use of new drugs

(2013) Rickard E. Malmström et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Generic Medicines: Solutions for a Sustainable Drug Market?

(2013) Pieter Dylst et al.   Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

The ‘Wise List’- A Comprehensive Concept to Select, Communicate and Achieve Adherence to Recommendations of Essential Drugs in Ambulatory Care in Stockholm

(2011) Lars L. Gustafsson et al.   BASIC & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY

Differences in external price referencing in Europe—A descriptive overview

(2011) Christine Leopold et al.   HEALTH POLICY

Better compliance to antihypertensive medications reduces cardiovascular risk

(2010) Giovanni Corrao et al.   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Medication Adherence

(2009) P. Michael Ho et al.   CIRCULATION

Potential savings without compromising the quality of care

(2009) C. Norman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PRACTICE

The Role of Social Capital in Successful Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa

(2009) Agnes Binagwaho et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Explaining Adherence Success in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Ethnographic Study

(2009) Norma C Ware et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Resistant Hypertension: Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment

(2008) David A. Calhoun et al.   HYPERTENSION