"Drug Dosage Calculations" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Math calculations done for preparing appropriate doses of medicines, taking into account conversions of WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mistakes are one of the sources of MEDICATION ERRORS.
| Descriptor ID |
D054796
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.319.305
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| Concept/Terms |
Drug Dosage Calculations- Drug Dosage Calculations
- Calculation, Drug Dosage
- Calculations, Drug Dosage
- Dosage Calculation, Drug
- Dosage Calculations, Drug
- Drug Dosage Calculation
- Pharmaceutical Calculations
- Calculation, Pharmaceutical
- Calculations, Pharmaceutical
- Pharmaceutical Calculation
- Pharmaceutical Arithmetic
- Arithmetic, Pharmaceutical
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Dosage Calculations" by people in Profiles.
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Patients with History of Colonoscopy Are Less Likely to Achieve High Quality Preparation After Implementing Split-Dose Bowel Preparation. Acta Gastroenterol Belg. 2017 Apr-Jun; 80(2):257-261.
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Renal Drug Dosing. Effectiveness of Outpatient Pharmacist-Based vs. Prescriber-Based Clinical Decision Support Systems. Appl Clin Inform. 2016 07 27; 7(3):731-44.
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Algorithm that delivers an individualized rapid-acting insulin dose after morning resistance exercise counters post-exercise hyperglycaemia in people with Type 1 diabetes. Diabet Med. 2016 Apr; 33(4):506-10.
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Association of Inhalation Toxicologists (AIT) working party recommendation for standard delivered dose calculation and expression in non-clinical aerosol inhalation toxicology studies with pharmaceuticals. Inhal Toxicol. 2008 Oct; 20(13):1179-89.