Pharmaceutical waste: Where's the harm?
| Autor: | Aoife Burke, Aoife Hutchinson, Bridget Johnstone, Maitray Varma, Hanan Husain, Holly Porter, Fiona Rickard, Iriene Sebastian, Hermela Tecle, Brett Duane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Dental Update. 48:926-930 |
| ISSN: | 2515-589X 0305-5000 |
| DOI: | 10.12968/denu.2021.48.11.926 |
| Popis: | Increasingly, healthcare practitioners need to be concerned not only with the type and dose of the medication prescribed to dental patients, but also to how waste is managed. This article discusses the results of a literature review on the harm both to the environment and population health caused by pharmaceutical waste and looks at potential ways of mitigating this worldwide problem. CPD/Clinical Relevance: The dental team needs to consider how they manage not only general clinical waste but their specific responsibility for pharmaceutical waste |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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