"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 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Dosage Calculations" by people in Profiles.
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Duconge J, Ramos AS, Claudio-Campos K, Rivera-Miranda G, Berm?dez-Bosch L, Renta JY, Cadilla CL, Cruz I, Feliu JF, Vergara C, Rua?o G. A Novel Admixture-Based Pharmacogenetic Approach to Refine Warfarin Dosing in Caribbean Hispanics. PLoS One. 2016; 11(1):e0145480.
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Drozda K, Wong S, Patel SR, Bress AP, Nutescu EA, Kittles RA, Cavallari LH. Poor warfarin dose prediction with pharmacogenetic algorithms that exclude genotypes important for African Americans. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2015 Feb; 25(2):73-81.