"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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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Dosage Calculations" by people in Profiles.
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Sanghai S, Wong C, Wang Z, Clive P, Tran W, Waring M, Goldberg R, Hayward R, Saczynski JS, McManus DD. Rates of Potentially Inappropriate Dosing of Direct-Acting Oral Anticoagulants and Associations With Geriatric Conditions Among Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The SAGE-AF Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 03 17; 9(6):e014108.
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Brunstein CG, Pasquini MC, Kim S, Fei M, Adekola K, Ahmed I, Aljurf M, Agrawal V, Auletta JJ, Battiwalla M, Bejanyan N, Bubalo J, Cerny J, Chee L, Ciurea SO, Freytes C, Gadalla SM, Gale RP, Ganguly S, Hashmi SK, Hematti P, Hildebrandt G, Holmberg LA, Lahoud OB, Landau H, Lazarus HM, de Lima M, Mathews V, Maziarz R, Nishihori T, Norkin M, Olsson R, Reshef R, Rotz S, Savani B, Schouten HC, Seo S, Wirk BM, Yared J, Mineishi S, Rogosheske J, Perales MA. Effect of Conditioning Regimen Dose Reduction in Obese Patients Undergoing Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2019 03; 25(3):480-487.
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Dalla Costa R, Prindaville B, Wiss K. Doing the math: A simple approach to topical timolol dosing for infantile hemangiomas. Pediatr Dermatol. 2018 Mar; 35(2):276-277.
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Eiland LS, English TM, Eiland EH. Assessment of vancomycin dosing and subsequent serum concentrations in pediatric patients. Ann Pharmacother. 2011 May; 45(5):582-9.
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Shaw PB, Donovan JL, Tran MT, Lemon SC, Burgwinkle P, Gore J. Accuracy assessment of pharmacogenetically predictive warfarin dosing algorithms in patients of an academic medical center anticoagulation clinic. J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2010 Aug; 30(2):220-5.