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Descriptor English: Drug Substitution
Descriptor Spanish: Sustitución de Medicamentos
Descriptor sustitución de medicamentos
Entry term(s) sustitución de fármacos
Scope note: Práctica de sustituir un medicamento por otro, del que se espera que tenga idénticos efectos clínicos o fisiológicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Substituição de Medicamentos
Descriptor French: Substitution de médicament
Entry term(s): Drug Substitutions
Drug Switching
Drug Switchings
Generic Substitution
Generic Substitutions
Substitution, Drug
Substitution, Generic
Substitution, Therapeutic
Substitutions, Drug
Substitutions, Generic
Substitutions, Therapeutic
Switching, Drug
Switchings, Drug
Therapeutic Substitution
Therapeutic Substitutions
Tree number(s): E02.319.307.312
N02.421.668.778.500.312
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D057915
Scope note: The practice of replacing one prescribed drug with another that is expected to have the same clinical or psychological effect.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Drug Therapy (2006-2010)
Therapeutic Equivalency (1979-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
DeCS ID: 54217
Unique ID: D057915
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Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Drug Substitution - Preferred
Concept UI M0539879
Scope note The practice of replacing one prescribed drug with another that is expected to have the same clinical or psychological effect.
Preferred term Drug Substitution
Entry term(s) Drug Substitutions
Drug Switching
Drug Switchings
Substitution, Drug
Substitution, Therapeutic
Substitutions, Drug
Substitutions, Therapeutic
Switching, Drug
Switchings, Drug
Therapeutic Substitution
Therapeutic Substitutions
Generic Substitution - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0545765
Preferred term Generic Substitution
Entry term(s) Generic Substitutions
Substitution, Generic
Substitutions, Generic



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