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It provides step by step guidance to the process of rational prescribing, together with many illustrative examples.
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Drug PrescriptionsSubject(s)
Formulary , Drug Therapy , Drug Information Services , Guideline , Pharmacopoeias as Topic , Drugs, EssentialABSTRACT
Diagnostic imaging in small hospitals is discussed. Four key questions are answered: (1) Are diagnostic imaging technologies necessary at this level? (2) Which technologies should be chosen and why? (3) How can they be most rationally and cost effectively used? (4) How can their total impact on health care be assessed? The paper concludes that small hospitals should have diagnostic imaging facilities and that the modalities of choice are diagnostic radiology and ultrasonography. A detailed description is given of the WHO Basic Radiological System and General Purpose Ultrasonographic equipment together with WHO recommendations for the rational use of diagnostic imaging.
