Prescription pattern of anti-hypertensive drugs in a tertiary health institution in Nigeria
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Prescription pattern of anti-hypertensive drugs in a tertiary health institution in Nigeria.
OBJECTIVE This study examined the pattern of physicians' prescription of antihypertensive drugs and its possible effects on blood pressure control as well as physicians' compliance with recommended guidelines. METHODS Records of 145 patients aged 17-91 (mean: 52.6+/-14.6) years, with male to female ratio of 1:1.2 were randomly selected. Information on antihypertensive prescriptions was record...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of African Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1596-3519
DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.55665