title: The pharmacoepidemiological phenomenon of age-dependent drug consumption and analysis of its regression models.
abstract: A randomized pharmacoepidemiological full-year, 7x realized experiment was carried out with the purpose of analyzing the age dependence of drug volumes consumed by the population, using financial and physical measuring units to express per-capita consumption. The experiment was performed for a complete metropolitan population, representing 0.5 million people. Causal age-based dependence of the drug consumption level was found in an analytical form. Subsequently, the optimum regression model describing this dependence was sought by methods of regression and correlation analysis.
authors.affiliation: Departament of Organization and Management in Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Majtás
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Springer
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000191:economics*; D017891:Pharmacoepidemiology; D018154:Slovakia
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations