Managing drug abuse
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nurses. One such criterion was that patients with heart failure, who are receiving more than frusemide 40mg, should also be receiving an ACE inhibitor. The audit consisted of 502 patients from 10 practices who were receiving diuretics. Of those patients who satisfied our agreed criterion for ACE inhibitors, 50% were receiving treatment that complied with the criterion. These are early days for the dissemination of recently published science to the profession, and we in Barking and Havering are to take this audit further durt g the current year in order to improve the management and investigation of cardiac failure in our locality.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006