RT Book, Section
A1 Petty, Brent G.
A2 McKean, Sylvia C.
A2 Ross, John J.
A2 Dressler, Daniel D.
A2 Brotman, Daniel J.
A2 Ginsberg, Jeffrey S.
SR Print(0)
ID 56191702
T1 Chapter 11. Principles of Evidence-Based Prescribing
T2 Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160389-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56191702
RD 2024/04/24
AB Medications  are  the  principal  tools  doctors  use  to  maintain  health,  reverse  illness,  and  extend  patients'  survival,  hopefully  with  good  quality  of  life.  Yet  medications  can  also  cause  serious  illness  and  fail  to  have  the  desired  effect  if  they  are  used  improperly.  Additionally,  medications  can  be  extraordinarily  expensive,  and  the  cost  to  individual  patients,  to  hospitals,  and  to  our  health  system  can  become  almost  prohibitive.  So  the  proper  use  of  medications  is  critically  important.