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Drug Substitution

"Drug Substitution" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The practice of replacing one prescribed drug with another that is expected to have the same clinical or psychological effect.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Substitution" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Substitution" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2018
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