Guide to good prescribing
- Geneva World Health Organization 1995
- 108p.
The book provides a step by step guide to the process of rational prescribing presenting skills and ideas necessary for effective practice. The various steps involved in prescribing are explained and their importance noted. These include; choosing and using drugs; treating the patient it suggests involves selecting a suitable drug, prescribing it, monitoring the treatment and communicating to the patient; and updating the doctor?s knowledge by acquiring and using new information about drugs.