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Inappropriate Prescriptions

Known as: Inappropriate Prescription, Prescription, Inappropriate, Prescriptions, Inappropriate 
Medications administered in a manner that poses more risk than benefit, particularly where safer alternatives exist.
National Institutes of Health

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2015
2015
Assessment of Prescribing Trends and Quality of Handwritten Prescriptions from Rural India
Drugs are an integral part of the health care system has and have a vital role in maintaining human health and saving mankind… 
2013
2013
Decreased acid suppression therapy overuse after education and medication reconciliation
Background:  Acid suppression therapy (AST) is commonly overprescribed in hospitalised patients. This indiscriminate use… 
2012
2012
[Underestimated impact of antibiotic misuse in outpatient children].
2011
2011
The potentially inappropriate prescription of new drug: thiazolidinediones for patients with type II diabetes in Taiwan
To examine the potentially inappropriate prescription of thiazolidinediones (TZD). 
Review
2008
Review
2008
Management of acute rhinosinusitis in primary care: changing paradigms and the emerging role of intranasal corticosteroids.
Primary care physicians are frequently confronted with patients suffering from symptoms of acute rhinosinusitis (RS), and may… 
2007
2007
[Potentially inappropriate drugs for geriatric patients].
OBJECTIVE Drug-related mortality and morbidity concern mainly older people because of frequent poly-pathology and polytherapy… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Improving prescribing in the elderly: a study in the long term care setting.
OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and predictors of potentially inappropriate prescribing of medications in the long term… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Drug Use in the Nursing Home
With increasing pressure on hospitals to shorten acute-care stays, and the unprecedented aging of the population in… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
Multidrug resistance in the world: the present situation.
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death attributable to a single infectious pathogen with one-third of the world… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND SAFETY: AN UPDATED PERSPECTIVE ON PROBLEMS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
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