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Association Of Naloxone Coprescription Laws With Naloxone Prescription Dispensing In The United States, Minji Sohn, Jeffery C. Talbert, Zhengyan Huang, Michelle R. Lofwall, Patricia R. Freeman
Association Of Naloxone Coprescription Laws With Naloxone Prescription Dispensing In The United States, Minji Sohn, Jeffery C. Talbert, Zhengyan Huang, Michelle R. Lofwall, Patricia R. Freeman
Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy Faculty Publications
Importance: To mitigate the opioid overdose crisis, states have implemented a variety of legal interventions aimed at increasing access to the opioid antagonist naloxone. Recently, Virginia and Vermont mandated the coprescription of naloxone for potentially at-risk patients.
Objective: To assess the association between naloxone coprescription legal mandates and naloxone dispensing in retail pharmacies.
Design, Setting, and Participants: This was a population-based, state-level cohort study. The sample included all prescriptions dispensed for naloxone in the retail pharmacy setting contained in IQVIA's national prescription audit, which represents 90% of all retail pharmacies in the United States. The unit of observation was state-month …
Initial Management Of Meningiomas: Analysis Of The National Cancer Database, Catherine R. Garcia, Stacey A. Slone, Monica Chau, Janna H. Neltner, Thomas A. Pittman, John L. Villano
Initial Management Of Meningiomas: Analysis Of The National Cancer Database, Catherine R. Garcia, Stacey A. Slone, Monica Chau, Janna H. Neltner, Thomas A. Pittman, John L. Villano
Neurology Faculty Publications
BACKGROUND: Meningiomas are the most common central nervous system tumor. We describe current trends in treatment and survival using the largest cancer dataset in the United States.
METHODS: We analyzed the National Cancer Database from 2004 to 2014, for all patients with diagnosis of meningioma.
RESULTS: 201,765 cases were analyzed. Patients were most commonly White (81.9%) females (73.2%) with a median age of 64 years. Fifty percent of patients were diagnosed by imaging. Patients were reported as grade I (24.9%), grade II (5.0%), grade III (0.7%), or unknown WHO grade (69.4%). Patients diagnosed by imaging were older, received treatment in …