How appropriate is it to switch patients from one drug to another in the same class?
November 2002
How appropriate is it to switch patients from one drug to another in the same class?
Formularies often encourage switches between statins...ACE inhibitors...angiotensin receptor blockers...etc.
These switches are often justifiable by the "class effect."
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