Prescribing practice in a Swiss primary and secondary acute care hospital

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 47-48, 2006, Pages 769-775

  Oertle, Marc ^a,b   Mouton, Wolfgang G ^a  

^a Spital Thun STS AG   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute care hospital; Computerized physician order entry CPOE; Drug therapy; Electronic prescription; Hospitalized patients; Medication error; Prescribing pattern; Therapy duration

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; BISOPROLOL; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXPANTHENOL; ESOMEPRAZOLE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LORAZEPAM; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE; NADROPARIN; OMEPRAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PICOSULFATE SODIUM; PIPERACILLIN; QUINAPRIL; SALBUTAMOL; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; TAZOBACTAM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALERIAN; VALSARTAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG FORMULATION; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 33846278746     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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