Inappropriate prescribing of antimalarial therapy for the treatment of undifferentiated febrile illness among the elderly.

Background: Inappropriate prescribing results in serious health outcomes in the elderly, increasing morbidity and mortality and wasting resources. In developing countries, physicians sometimes ignore parasitological diagnoses and presumptively treat fever as malaria, leading to overtreatment and dru...

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Publicado en:Journal of Pharmacy Practice & Research Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 530 - 537
Autores principales: Menon, Vineetha Bharathan, Ramesh, Madhan, Pereira, Pratibha, Chilkunda Raviprakash, Venkatesh, Undela, Krishna
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2018
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