Vignette: A child with complex health needs takes multiple blister-packed medications and uses several inhalers. One day in your clinic or your pharmacy she asks: “What happens to all these chemicals after I put them...
Pharmacol Res Perspect. 2020; 8:e651. Ben‐Eltriki, M, Green, CJ, Maclure, M, Musini, V, Bassett, KL, Wright, JM Abstract: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) were primarily approved for short‐term use (2 to 8 weeks). However, PPI use continues to expand. Widely...
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) were introduced in 1988. Health Canada, professional, and academic groups all agree that they should be prescribed at the lowest dose and for the shortest duration appropriate to the condition treated....
An individual Portrait on prescribing PPIs to patients age 19 and older was distributed to approximately 5400 family doctors in BC, randomized to receive the Portrait in two groups. The Portraits were mailed to the...