Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

incident use

English answer:

new use

Added to glossary by Helen Genevier
Apr 18, 2021 08:56
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English term

... incident use of medication for ...

English Medical Medical (general) Pharmacology
The question relates to the meaning of "incident" in this context. Do I understand right that here it means something like "related to" or "intended to" (related to a certain disease or intended to treatment of a certain disease).

Examples:

... to examine any incident use of prescription medication for each of the three medical conditions ...
https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3813&full...

The results from our study support the previous findings since we also found that the incident use of medication for mental disorders was elevated and increasing over the years ...
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/H-K-Ka...

The database was searched for all incident prescriptions of NSAIDs ... and incident hospitalisations for stroke ...
https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/195_09_071111/cau...
Change log

Apr 18, 2021 15:58: karin förster handley changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

May 6, 2021 14:03: Helen Genevier Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): Tony M, philgoddard, karin förster handley

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Discussion

philgoddard Apr 19, 2021:
I expect Julia has moved on to other things now, but it would have been interesting to contact the authors of her references and ask what they mean.
Tony M Apr 19, 2021:
@ Phil Yes, I'd agree with that interpretation, as an adjective.
philgoddard Apr 19, 2021:
I'm pretty certain that incident is an adjective, not a noun.
karin förster handley Apr 18, 2021:
From what I could find, "incident" is related to errors in medication. Definitely a question for PROs. Just one link of quite a number I found, as an example in case it helps: https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/aa72ff23-9dd5...
Tina Vonhof (X) Apr 18, 2021:
Yes, I think it means any incident related to the use of prescription medication.
philgoddard Apr 18, 2021:
I've spent quite a while researching this, and I'm none the wiser! All the examples I found used the term without defining it. Definitely a pro question.

Responses

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1 day 6 hrs
English term (edited): incident use
Selected

new use

Incident users of a drug are new users, e.g. you can see all the prescriptions they've had for the past year and this is their first prescription that includes the drug of interest. This would be in opposition to prevalent users, who were already taking the drug of interest before the start of follow-up.
"Incident cases comprise cases newly diagnosed during a defined time period. " https://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/e-learning/epidemiology/p...
"Incident use was defined as no receipt of a medication within the same ODB subclass as the index non-opioid drug in the year prior to index"
https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/3/683
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
12 hrs
Thanks Phil :-)
agree Yvonne Gallagher
20 hrs
Thanks Yvonne :-)
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14 hrs

.. the frequency of the use of medication ...

The incident use of medication is in connection with the frequency or regularity and occurrence of its usage.
The first reference below cites examples and statistics of narcotics use.
The second reference is focused on statistics of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) which was prescribed to patients for specified conditions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1060028017708394
"Potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) increase the risk of adverse drug reactions and events, and have been associated with greater health care service use such as an increased risk of hospitalization."

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Note added at 17 hrs (2021-04-19 02:30:59 GMT)
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"When it's an adjective, incident is followed by, related to or dependent on something else.
When it's a noun, an incident is a particular event or occurrence of minor importance which could entail serious consequences. It's a disruptive event of distinct occurrence which interrupts normal procedures or functions, a mishap. It can be a minor, subsidiary or connected event or action. It's contingent to, related to or dependent on something else."
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/incident
Example sentence:

"The overall prevalence of drug use in the UK has remained relatively stable throughout the last decade."

"Most studies of potentially inappropriate medication use among older adults have focused on prevalence rather than incidence."

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1 day 10 hrs

use following an "incident"

Where an incident is a medical condition leading to the medicine being prescribed

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Note added at 1 day 10 hrs (2021-04-19 19:45:27 GMT)
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"Incident" here being an adjective
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