"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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| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Dosage Calculations" by people in Profiles.
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Drug dosage in continuous venoveno hemofiltration in critically ill children. Front Biosci (Schol Ed). 2016 01 01; 8(1):56-66.
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Dosing algorithm for concomitant administration of sirolimus, tacrolimus, and an azole after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2015 Dec; 21(6):409-15.
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Clinical pharmacology for the primary care physician. Dis Mon. 2012 Oct; 58(10):558-610.
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Dosing errors did not have a major impact on outcome in the NINDS t-PA stroke study. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2011 May-Jun; 20(3):236-40.
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Evaluation of a low, weight-based dose of rasburicase in adult patients for the treatment or prophylaxis of tumor lysis syndrome. J Oncol Pharm Pract. 2011 Sep; 17(3):147-54.
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Efficacy, pharmacokinetics, safety, and tolerability of Flebogamma 10% DIF, a high-purity human intravenous immunoglobulin, in primary immunodeficiency. J Clin Immunol. 2010 Mar; 30(2):321-9.
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Ketoconazole and prednisone to prevent recurrent ischemic priapism. J Urol. 2009 Oct; 182(4):1401-6.