Appropriateness of timing of drug administration in electronic prescriptions

Pharmacy World and Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-171

  Hassan, Arwa ^a   Haefeli, Walter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythm; Drug therapy; Germany; Medication errors; Pharmaceutical preparations; Pharmacodynamics; Pharmacokinetics

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMLODIPINE; ATORVASTATIN; CARBOPLATIN; CICLESONIDE; CIMETIDINE; DILTIAZEM; DOXAZOSIN; FAMOTIDINE; FLUINDOSTATIN; FLUOXETINE; INDOMETACIN; ISRADIPINE; KETOPROFEN; LANSOPRAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NISOLDIPINE; OLMESARTAN; OMEPRAZOLE; PANTOPRAZOLE; PERINDOPRIL; PREDNISOLONE; QUINAPRIL; RABEPRAZOLE; RAMIPRIL; RANITIDINE; SIMVASTATIN; TELMISARTAN; THEOPHYLLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADVANCED CANCER; ALGORITHM; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DOSAGE SCHEDULE COMPARISON; DUODENUM ULCER; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; EMBASE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EVENING DOSAGE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDLINE; MORNING DOSAGE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CARCINOMA; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77953324387     PISSN: 09281231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-009-9362-4     Document Type: Article

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