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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Pharmaceutical Services > Drug Information Services > Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Investigative Techniques > Evaluation Studies as Topic > Product Surveillance, Postmarketing > Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
... > Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms > Evaluation Studies as Topic > Product Surveillance, Postmarketing > Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms > Evaluation Studies as Topic > Product Surveillance, Postmarketing > Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

Preferred term

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Programs, usually run by state governments, that require pharmacists to collect and distribute data on the prescription and dispensation of CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. They are intended to prevent the abuse of such substances by the patient, or their transfer to recreational users and drug dealers.

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Entry terms

  • Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
  • Prescription Monitoring

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In other languages

  • Programmes de surveillance des médicaments d'ordonnance

    French

  • Programmes de surveillance des médicaments de prescription
  • Programmes de surveillance des médicaments délivrés sur ordonnance
  • Programmes de surveillance des médicaments sur ordonnance
  • Surveillance des ordonnances
  • Surveillance des prescriptions

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