Browsing Health Sciences by Subject "Total medicine cost"
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Aspects of drug usage in a section of the private health care sector of South Africa : A managed health care approach
(North-West University, 2008)Background: According to the Council of Medical Schemes of South Africa (CMS, 2007:52), nearly seventeen percent of the total benefits paid during 2006 were for medicine. Medicine is thus a cost-driving contributor to total ... -
A retrospective analysis of the prescribing patterns of hipolipidaemic drugs : a pharmacoeconomic approach
(North-West University, 2009)Background: More than 5.5 million South Africans aged 30 years and older are at risk of chronic disease by virtue of their triglyceride levels (Maritz, 2006:101). Dyslipidaemia is common in westernized and industrialized ...