01.01.2006 | Commentary
‘Hedged’ Prescribing for Partially Compliant Patients
How Accurate Are Available Scaling Methods?
Erschienen in: Clinical Pharmacokinetics | Ausgabe 1/2006
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The term ‘hedge’ has multiple meanings; its use here is analogous to its meaning in financial markets, i.e. ‘to protect oneself from losing or failing by a counterbalancing action’.[1] The paper by Blesius et al.[2] strives to achieve a therapeutically useful degree of ‘counterbalancing action’ in the prescribing of oral anticoagulants by switching between either of two available drugs and/or between once- and twice-daily dosing. Their approach deserves attention and consideration for extension into other fields of ambulatory pharmacotherapy as a risk-management tool. …Anzeige