Agreement between self-reported data on medicine use and prescription records vary according to method of analysis and therapeutic group.

Objective: This study compared national self-reported data on medicine use and national prescription records at the individual level.

Study Design And Setting: Data from the nationally representative Danish health survey conducted in 2000 (n=16,688) were linked at the individual level to national prescription records covering 1999-2000. Kappa statistics and 95% confidence intervals were calculated.

Use of natural medicines in the Danish population: a national cross-sectional survey.

Background: The use of natural medicines is widespread and increasing. In addition, natural medicine use is based primarily on individual's decisions without counseling from health professionals. Unlike with conventional medicines, it is not possible to evaluate sales statistics and prescription records to determine how much natural medicine is being used and by whom.

Patient characteristics associated with prescribing of a newly introduced drug: the case of rofecoxib.

Objective: To identify socio-demographic characteristics of the first patients receiving a new drug--rofecoxib.

Outcome Measurement: Patients starting on rofecoxib or another non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and who had not received any NSAIDs the 90 days prior to starting.

Results: Starting on rofecoxib was associated with an increasing age (OR in age 80 years and older 8.

Patterns of psychotropic medicine use and related diseases across educational groups: national cross-sectional survey.

Objective: To analyse whether the use of different groups of psychotropic medicines among educational groups in a general population was congruent with the occurrence of related diseases.

Methods: Data from The Danish Health and Morbidity Survey 2000 were analysed. The survey was conducted by face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of the Danish population aged 16 years and above ( n=16,690).

Prescription and non-prescription medicine use in Denmark: association with socio-economic position.

Objective: To analyse the association among different types of medicine use and different measures of socio-economic position (SEP) in one and the same general population.

Methods: Data from The Danish Health and Morbidity Survey 2000 were analysed. The survey was conducted by face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of the adult Danish population (n=16,690).

Methylenedioxy- and methoxyflavones from Melicope coodeana syn. Euodia simplex.

Three new natural products, 3,8-dimethoxy-5,7-dihydroxy-3',4'-methylenedioxyflavone, 3,6,8-trimethoxy-5,7-dihydroxy-3',4'-methylenedioxyflavone and 3,6,8,3',4'-pentamethoxy-5,7-dihydroxyflavone were isolated from Melicope coodeana syn. Euodia simplex (Rutaceae) along with 3,6,3'-trimethoxy-5,7,4'-trihydroxyflavone and 3,3'-dimethoxy-5,7,4'-trihydroxyflavone. The structural assignments are based on (1)H and (13)C NMR data, including discussion of the chemical shifts of C-2 in 3,5-dihydroxy- and 3-methoxy-5-hydroxyflavones.