Patterns of prescription medicine dispensing before and during pregnancy in New Zealand, 2005-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe prescription medicine dispensing before and during pregnancy in New Zealand, 2005-2015.

Methods

Members of the New Zealand Pregnancy Cohort were linked with their dispensing records in a national database of prescription products dispensed from community pharmacies. We identified the proportion of pregnancies during which at least one prescription medicine was dispensed, the number of different medicines used and the most commonly dispensed medicine groups both during pregnancy and in the 270 days before conception. Dispensing during pregnancy was assessed by several maternal characteristics.

Results

874,884 pregnancies were included. Over the study timeframe, the proportion of pregnancies exposed to a non-supplement prescription medicine increas

SUBMITTER: Donald S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7266349 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature