Use of prescription drugs: Rising or declining?

Nursing Clinics of North America

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-49

  Crockett, Anita B ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CELECOXIB; CETIRIZINE; DESLORATADINE; DIAZEPAM; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HYDROXYZINE; IBUPROFEN; INSULIN; KETOPROFEN; LORATADINE; LORAZEPAM; MELOXICAM; METFORMIN; NAPROXEN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ROFECOXIB; UNINDEXED DRUG; VACCINE;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG COST; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HALLUCINATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOOD DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 14744303084     PISSN: 00296465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnur.2004.08.012     Document Type: Review

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