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Patients, society, and the increase in self medication.
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.
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52 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use by patients: Impact of modular educational training on pharmacists' questioning, counselling and risk assessments.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2024Article
- Impact of pension income on healthcare utilization of older adults in rural China.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Barriers and facilitators for providing self-care advice in community pharmacies: a qualitative study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2023Article
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- Treatment, Persistent Symptoms, and Depression in People Infected with COVID-19 in Bangladesh.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- University Students' Self-Medication Practices and Pharmacists' Role: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Hail, Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Patients Are Knowledge Workers in the Clinical Information Space.Applied clinical informatics · 2021Article
- Over-the-counter medicines, economic conditions, and citizens most in need in Greece: Is it a challenge for primary care research?Currents in pharmacy teaching & learning · 2020Article
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- Prevalence, expenditures, and associated factors of purchasing non-prescribed Chinese herbal medicine in Taiwan.PloS one · 2020Article
- Antibiotic drug-resistance as a complex system driven by socio-economic growth and antibiotic misuse.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Pharmacist Compliance With Therapeutic Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment Provision.JAMA network open · 2019Article
- A Theory Based Intervention to Enhance Information Exchange during Over-The-Counter Consultations in Community Pharmacy: A Feasibility Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Evidence of Self-Medication with Chloroquine before Consultation for Malaria in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2019Article
- Prevalence and Determinants of Antibiotic Self-Medication among Adult Patients with Respiratory Tract Infections in the Mboppi Baptist Hospital, Douala, Cameroon: A Cross-Sectional Study.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures.Health services research · 2017Article
- Self-medication misuse in the Middle East: a systematic literature review.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2017Review
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Abstract
Self medication with over the counter medicines has long been a feature of the lay health system. With the reclassification of certain drugs, the public can buy preparations that were previously available only prescription. Sales of over the counter medicines are now equivalent to a third of the NHS drugs bill; governments throughout the world see self medication as a way of shifting some of the cost of health care onto consumers. The trend towards increased self care and with it the increasing empowerment of patients has many potential benefits; collaboration between doctors and pharmacists will be critical.
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