OBJECTIVE: Analysis of authorised long-term medication and assessment of the quality of prescription. DESIGN: Descriptive, crossover study. SETTING: Primary care. PARTICIPANTS: Of a total of 4,667 authorised medication cards (AMC), 400 were selected by systematic random sampling. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Variables considered: age, gender, Social Security regime, pharmaceutical speciality, composition, presentation, method of administration, dosage, authorisation time, group/subgroup of anatomical therapeutic classification (ATC) and HPV. RESULTS: Average age: 61; 64.8% were women and 35.2% men; 67.25% were pensioners. 447 pharmaceutical compounds and 304 different active principals (most prescribed drugs: paracetamol, hydrochlorothiazide, nitroglycerine, acetylsalicylic acid and salbutamol); presentation: tablets and capsules; main way of administration: oral. Average dosage: 1.63 (11.29% not figuring). Average authorisation time: 11.6 months; average medicines per AMC: 3.03. Distribution by ATC: cardiovascular (30.8%); CNS (20.76%); digestive and metabolic (15.57%); respiratory (10.6%). 83.8% of prescriptions had HPV. 84.35% were single drugs. CONCLUSIONS: The mean profile of the patient with an AMC corresponds to a woman, aged 61 and a pensioner, with 3 medicines authorised for a year, one an analgesic (paracetamol), another an antihypertensive (diuretic) and a third more variable. They are mainly taken orally and once or twice a day. The majority are special compounds with HPV.

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PubMed1995

[In defense of beta-adrenergic blockers].

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PubMed1993

[Osteitis condensans ilii].

OBJECTIVE: The description of a case of osteitis condensans ilii. DESIGN: Descriptive. SETTING: Base health area. PATIENTS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS: A 24-year-old puerperal woman. INTERVENTIONS: Analgesic treatment. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We were presented with the history of a woman with low lumbar pain of a mechanical character, after a dystocial birth two months previously. The radiology showed a triangular bony condensation on the edge of the sacroiliac joints. CONCLUSIONS: Osteitis condensans ilii is a benign structure, almost only ever found in women who have borne children. Its presentation is asymptomatic or nonspecific (low lumbalgia). Its very specific radiological image needs to be distinguished carefully in order to avoid diagnostical confusion with ankylosing spondylitis and other causes of sacroiliitis.

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