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Article: National Prescribing Service
- Article from:
- Indian Journal of Pharmacology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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The most common aspect of health-related behaviour is the use of medicines. The patient-doctor relationship is always associated with the expectation of a prescription consisting of medicines. The health care provider also has no doubts that modern remedies save lives and are also the most convenient and cost-efficient way of treatment. It is also well-established that most medicines are inaptly prescribed and used. This tends to happen both ways; overuse of certain drugs and the underutilization of others. In addition to this, problems directly related to drug therapy account for a large number of hospital admissions-most of which are ...