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BMJ Open
January 2025
General Practice and Primary Health Care, The University of Auckland Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Auckland, New Zealand
Objectives: To identify what changes in the prescribing of isotretinoin have occurred since funded prescriber access was widened in 2009 from 'dermatologist only' prescribing to include 'general practitioners (GPs) and nurse practitioners working within their scope of practice'.
Design: Evaluation of isotretinoin dispensing data from 2008 to 2023 using the national annual prescribing data obtained from the New Zealand Pharmaceutical National Collection database.
Setting: All New Zealand citizens prescribed and dispensed funded isotretinoin for acne from 2008 to 2023 were included.
Psychiatry Res
January 2025
South Carolina Department of Mental Health, 220 Executive Dr, Greer, SC 29651, United States; Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, 15 Medical Park, Suite 301, Columbia, SC 29203, United States.
Although long-acting injectable antipsychotics (LAIs) are an important pharmaceutical option in the management of schizophrenia and related disorders, little is known about patient characteristics related to LAI use in real-world outpatient settings. We analyzed electronic medical records from 41,401 patients who received psychiatric services from one of 16 regional mental health centers operated by the South Carolina Department of Mental Health in 2022. We compared the use of first- and second-generation LAIs and oral antipsychotics by sociodemographic (age, gender, race/ethnicity, zip code, payment source) and clinical characteristics (psychiatric diagnoses, service use).
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July 2024
The study explores the impact of local ethnic demography on ethnic voting, focusing on an understudied democratic experiment in Southeastern Europe during the 1920s-Yugoslavia. Using original data on 378 counties across four parliamentary elections, the study tests two competing hypotheses regarding inter-ethnic contact between Serbs and Croatians: the threat hypothesis and the contact hypothesis. The findings indicate that in contexts where demographic distribution nears parity between rival ethnic groups, minority nationalist voting intensifies while majority nationalist voting diminishes.
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June 2025
UI Health/University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Background: Screening for diabetes in non-traditional settings like emergency departments (ED) can enhance early detection among patients at higher risk for diabetes. This study aims to assess the reach of an ED-based screening program by examining the characteristics of patients screen-detected for diabetes or prediabetes.
Study Design: Retrospective cross-sectional study.
PhytoKeys
January 2025
Key Laboratory of Ecology and Environment in Minority Areas (Minzu University of China), National Ethnic Affairs Commission of China, Beijing 100081, China.
(Acoraceae) is a commonly used seasoning in southern China. It was previously misidentified as (Yamam.) F.
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