Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 7 , Pages 360-363, July 2008

Practical prescribing

DJM Reynolds MA DPhil FRCP is a Clinical Pharmacologist and General Physician at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. Competing interests: none declared

Abstract 

Despite the fact that prescribing is one of the commonest medication interventions, the process involved is highly complex and therefore not surprisingly it is prone to significant error and misjudgement with potentially serious consequences for patients. This article takes a very simple clinical scenario in order to illustrate the principles which every prescriber should know.

Keywords: comorbidity, drug interaction, diagnosis, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, paracetamol, prescribing

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PII: S1357-3039(08)00117-5

doi:10.1016/j.mpmed.2008.04.008

Medicine
Volume 36, Issue 7 , Pages 360-363, July 2008

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