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The package leaflet supplied with the product is aimed at end-users. [3] A cartoon by Roy Doty depicting the package insert as overly long and complicated. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determines the requirements for patient package inserts.
Isotretinoin may cause liver failure, therefore the patient's blood levels should be regularly tested. [9] It is known to cause birth defects due to in-utero exposure because of the molecule's close resemblance to retinoic acid, a natural vitamin A derivative that controls normal embryonic development. It is associated with psychiatric side ...
This page lists patient-reported quality of life surveys used in the field of medicine, pharmaceuticals, and other scientific trials. These surveys are patient-reported outcome measures, may be questionnaires or surveys , and may be used to evaluate patient satisfaction, symptoms, disease state, or psychological well-being.
From 2007 the survey has been conducted by a direct postal approach to a sample of patients. Earlier surveys were administered by practices. [4] The 2009 survey was sent to approximately 5,500,000 registered adult patients. [5] In 2021, invitations were sent by letter to a sample of people from each of more than 6800 practices. [6]
Additionally, Granberg's survey provided basic demographic characteristics of his sample: 98% of survey respondents were white, 63% were female, 58% had a college degree, and 70% were Catholic. Granberg concluded that conservative personal morality was the primary mechanism for explaining an individual's involvement in the anti-abortion movement.
The word pamphlet for a small work (opuscule) issued by itself without covers came into Middle English c. 1387 as pamphilet or panflet, generalized from a twelfth-century amatory comic poem with a satiric flavor, Pamphilus, seu de Amore ('Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love'), written in Latin.
Modafinil, sold under the brand name Provigil among others, is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant and eugeroic (wakefulness promoter) medication used primarily to treat narcolepsy, [3] [8] [15] a sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden sleep attacks. [16]
A 1997 survey of 421 psychologists estimated the test's average accuracy at about 61%, a little better than chance. [484] Critics also argue that, even given high estimates of the polygraph's accuracy, a significant number of subjects (e.g., 10% given a 90% accuracy) will appear to be lying, and would unfairly suffer the consequences of ...