Issues around the Prescription of Half Tablets in Northern Switzerland: The Irrational Case of Quetiapine

Background. Prescription of fragmented tablets is useful for individualisation of dose but includes several drawbacks. Although without score lines, the antipsychotic drug quetiapine was in 2011 the most often prescribed 1/2 tablet in discharge prescriptions at the University Hospital in Basel (USB,...

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Main Authors: Samuel S. Allemann, Delia Bornand, Balthasar Hug, Kurt E. Hersberger, Isabelle Arnet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/602021