Prioritizing and stopping prescription medicines
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The problems and perils of prescription medicines.
are the subject of much publicity both from advertisements and articles in scientific journals. The difficulties of prescribing receive much less attention except when disasters occur. The conference sought to redress this balance, and considered not only the detection and management of adverse effects of drugs but also other aspects of the healthcare process that contribute to safe prescribing.
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.050837