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Therapeutics > Drug Therapy > Drug Prescriptions > Drug Substitution
... > Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Pharmaceutical Services > Prescriptions > Drug Prescriptions > Drug Substitution

Preferred term

Drug Substitution  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Drug Switching
  • Drug Switchings
  • Substitutions, Therapeutic
  • Substitution, Therapeutic
  • Switching, Drug
  • Switchings, Drug
  • Therapeutic Substitution
  • Therapeutic Substitutions

Scope note

  • The practice of replacing one prescribed drug with another that is expected to have the same clinical or psychological effect.

History note

  • 2011

In other languages

  • lääkevaihto

    Finnish

  • geneerinen lääkesubstituutio
  • geneerinen substituutio
  • generisk substitution
  • utbyte av läkemedel
  • Läkemedelssubstitution

    Swedish

  • Generisk läkemedelsersättning
  • Generisk substitution
  • Terapeutisk substitution
  • Utbyte av läkemedel

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D057915

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