Drug Safety
Prescribing practices at public health facilities in Laos are described
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 30th, 2006
Scientists in Laos and Japan conducted a study "to evaluate the rational use of drug (RUD) patterns with a focus on prescribing and dispensing practices for providing information to the policy makers for further planning and identifying intervention strategies."
Bounxou Keohavong and collaborators at the Ministry of Health in Laos and Nagoya University in Japan wrote, "A cross-sectional study was conducted by interviewing 370 presenting outpatients, checking records of 900 outpatients with...
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