Prescribing pattern in a pediatric out-patient department in Gujarat
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Prescribing pattern in a pediatric out-patient department in Gujarat
Children constitute about 40% of India’s population. Infants and children suffer from frequent but usually non-serious illnesses. Most of these are self-limiting (Straand et al., 1998) and are often treated not only inappropriately, but also resorting to polypharmacy (Ghai and Paul, 1988). Prescribers and the consumers are flooded with a vast array of pharmaceutical preparations with innumerabl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1991-0088,1991-007X
DOI: 10.3329/bjp.v4i1.1062