 Drugs, Essential
"Drugs, Essential" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Drugs considered essential to meet the health needs of a population as well as to control drug costs. (World Health Organization Action Programme on Essential Drugs, 1994, p3)
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D018954
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.355
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drugs, Essential" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Drugs, Essential" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drugs, Essential" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Holloway KA, Ivanovska V, Manikandan S, Jayanthi M, Mohan A, Forte G, Henry D. Identifying the most effective essential medicines policies for quality use of medicines: A replicability study using three World Health Organisation data-sets. PLoS One. 2020; 15(2):e0228201.
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Holloway KA, Kotwani A, Batmanabane G, Santoso B, Ratanawijitrasin S, Henry D. Promoting quality use of medicines in South-East Asia: reports from country situational analyses. BMC Health Serv Res. 2018 07 05; 18(1):526.
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Holloway KA, Rosella L, Henry D. The Impact of WHO Essential Medicines Policies on Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics. PLoS One. 2016; 11(3):e0152020.
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