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Waste of medicines in Portugal
- In: Community Pharmacy Section - Poster Session
- At: Cairo (Egypt) (2005)
- Type: Poster
- Poster code: CPS-P-082
- By: COSTA, Filipa (ANF, CEFAR, Lisboa, Portugal)
- Co-author(s): Martins (ANF, Lisboa, Portugal)
Batel-Marques (Faculty of Pharmacy, Coimbra, Portugal)
Rodrigues (Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal)
Mendes (ANF, Lisboa, Portugal)
Ferreira (Faculty of Pharmacy, Coimbra, Portugal)
Crisóstomo (ANF, Lisboa, Portugal) - Abstract:
Aims: To quantify the extent of medicines wasted nationally; to quantify the proportion unused by inadequate dimensioning of packages for the treatment duration and the proportion unused by patients’ own decision. Methods: A descriptive prospective study is being used, where therapeutic data is collected at baseline in the pharmacy and left over
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