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2. Medication package insert - Wikipedia

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   For prescription medications, the insert is technical, providing information for medical professionals about how to prescribe the drug. Package inserts for prescription drugs often include a separate document called a "patient package insert" with information written in plain language intended for the end-user —the person who will take the ...

3. Physicians' Desk Reference - Wikipedia

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   The book was distributed for free to all licensed medical doctors in America; only drugs which drug manufacturers paid to appear, appeared in the PDR, and no generic drugs were listed. The 71st Edition, published in 2017, was the final hardcover edition, weighed in at 4.6 pounds (2.1 kg) and contained information on over 1,000 drugs. [ 1 ]

4. Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties - Wikipedia

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   The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals, more commonly known by its abbreviation CPS, [1] is a reference book that contains drug monographs and numerous features which help healthcare professionals prescribe and use drugs safely and appropriately.

5. WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children - Wikipedia

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   The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children (aka Essential Medicines List for Children [1] or EMLc [1]), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe in children up to twelve years of age to meet the most important needs in a health system.

6. Medical prescription - Wikipedia

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   Alternatively, a prescription may be handwritten on preprinted prescription forms that have been assembled into pads, or printed onto similar forms using a computer printer or even on plain paper, according to the circumstances. In some cases, a prescription may be transmitted orally by telephone from the physician to the pharmacist.

7. List of medical mnemonics - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...

8. Medication Administration Record - Wikipedia

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   A kardex (plural kardexes) is a genericised trademark for a medication administration record. [2] The term is common in Ireland and the United Kingdom.In the Philippines, the term is used to refer the old census charts of the charge nurse usually used during endorsement, in which index cards are used, but has been gradually been replaced by modern health data systems and pre-printed charts and ...

9. Prescription drug - Wikipedia

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   The NHS prescription fee was increased to £9.90 for each item in England in May 2024; [6] prescriptions are free of charge if prescribed and dispensed in Scotland, [7] Wales and Northern Ireland, [8] and for some patients in England, such as inpatients, children, those over 60s or with certain medical conditions, and claimants of certain ...