Issues around the Prescription of Half Tablets in Northern Switzerland: The Irrational Case of Quetiapine
Background. Prescription of fragmented tablets is useful for individualisation of dose but includes several drawbacks. Although without score lines, the antipsychotic drug quetiapine was in 2011 the most often prescribed 1/2 tablet in discharge prescriptions at the University Hospital in Basel (USB,...
Main Authors: | Samuel S. Allemann, Delia Bornand, Balthasar Hug, Kurt E. Hersberger, Isabelle Arnet |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2015-01-01
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Series: | BioMed Research International |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/602021 |
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