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A closer look at the World Health Organization's prescribing indicators

This communication focuses on the World Health Organization's prescribing indicators. It describes the methods for computing the indicators and highlights their applicability as well as limitations in evaluating the patterns of medicines usage.

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Autor principal: Ofori-Asenso, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27127400
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.179352
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spelling pubmed-48314942016-04-28 A closer look at the World Health Organization's prescribing indicators Ofori-Asenso, Richard J Pharmacol Pharmacother Educational Forum This communication focuses on the World Health Organization's prescribing indicators. It describes the methods for computing the indicators and highlights their applicability as well as limitations in evaluating the patterns of medicines usage. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4831494/ /pubmed/27127400 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.179352 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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