Chronic Kidney Disease Management in General Practice: A Focus on Inappropriate Drugs Prescriptions
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Undispensed prescriptions in a mining general practice.
Seven per cent of prescription forms issued in a mining practice were not presented at chemists for dispensing. The people least likely to present their prescription forms were men aged 25-34 years, particularly miners. To get sickness benefit these men have to consult a doctor, but the medical content of the consultation in these circumstances is often perceived by them as irrelevant and the m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2077-0383
DOI: 10.3390/jcm9051346