Prescription Drug Overuse
"Prescription Drug Overuse" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The use of a medication in an amount more than as prescribed.
| Descriptor ID |
D000067490
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.319.306.500.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Prescription Drug Overuse- Prescription Drug Overuse
- Drug Overuse, Prescription
- Drug Overuses, Prescription
- Overuse, Prescription Drug
- Overuses, Prescription Drug
- Prescription Drug Overuses
- Medication Overutilization
- Medication Overutilizations
- Overutilization, Medication
- Overutilizations, Medication
- Medication Overuse
- Medication Overuses
- Overuse, Medication
- Overuses, Medication
- Prescription Drug Overutilization
- Drug Overutilization, Prescription
- Drug Overutilizations, Prescription
- Overutilization, Prescription Drug
- Overutilizations, Prescription Drug
- Prescription Drug Overutilizations
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Prescription Drug Overuse" by people in Profiles.
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Adaptation of the management of chronic migraine patients with medication overuse to the suspension of treatment protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from a tertiary headache center in Milan-6-month results. Headache. 2021 06; 61(6):961-962.
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The "Black Fungus" in India: The Emerging Syndemic of COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis. Ann Intern Med. 2021 09; 174(9):1301-1302.
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A call for antimicrobial stewardship in patients with COVID-19: a nationwide cohort study in Korea. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Apr; 27(4):653-655.
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Few bacterial co-infections but frequent empiric antibiotic use in the early phase of hospitalized patients with COVID-19: results from a multicentre retrospective cohort study in The Netherlands. Infect Dis (Lond). 2021 02; 53(2):102-110.
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Community use of antibiotics during the COVID-19 lockdown. Infect Dis (Lond). 2021 02; 53(2):142-144.
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Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on patients with migraine: a web-based survey study. J Headache Pain. 2020 Sep 24; 21(1):115.
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The Adaptation of Management of Chronic Migraine Patients With Medication Overuse to the Suspension of Treatment Protocols During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons From a Tertiary Headache Center in Milan, Italy. Headache. 2020 07; 60(7):1463-1464.
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Reducing antibiotic prescribing and addressing the global problem of antibiotic resistance by targeted hygiene in the home and everyday life settings: A position paper. Am J Infect Control. 2020 09; 48(9):1090-1099.
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Association of Quetiapine Overuse Letters With Prescribing by Physician Peers of Targeted Recipients: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 10 01; 76(10):1094-1095.
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'Antibiotic footprint' as a communication tool to aid reduction of antibiotic consumption. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 08 01; 74(8):2122-2127.