{"title":"A community pharmacy-based survey of antihypertensive and antidiabetic drug dosages in Northern Ireland.","authors":"K Griffiths, D G McDevitt","doi":"10.1111/j.1365-2710.1983.tb01040.x","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"International drug utilization data comparisons for antihypertensive and anti‐diabetic agents based on standard daily dosage units, Defined Daily Doses (DDD), show that less of these drugs are prescribed per head of population in Northern Ireland than in Norway or Sweden. A study was designed to investigate whether actual prescribing practices in Northern Ireland might account for some of these apparent differences by comparing the average prescribed daily dose, (PDD) with the DDD for antihypertensive and antidiabetic drugs.","PeriodicalId":77862,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and hospital pharmacy","volume":"8 2","pages":"115-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1983-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1365-2710.1983.tb01040.x","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of clinical and hospital pharmacy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2710.1983.tb01040.x","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
International drug utilization data comparisons for antihypertensive and anti‐diabetic agents based on standard daily dosage units, Defined Daily Doses (DDD), show that less of these drugs are prescribed per head of population in Northern Ireland than in Norway or Sweden. A study was designed to investigate whether actual prescribing practices in Northern Ireland might account for some of these apparent differences by comparing the average prescribed daily dose, (PDD) with the DDD for antihypertensive and antidiabetic drugs.