Pharmatecture: Minimizing Medications to Maximize ResultsThis practical guide to prescribing strategies is designed to help prevent coprescribing, codispensing and dangerous interactions, and covers essential variables in drug selection, including cost, compliance, drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, and indications. 48-page full-color section describes and illustrates drug and disease incompatibility profiles. 94 illus. |
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