Good Practice in Prescribing - General Medical Council
www.gmc-uk.org › - › mediaGood Practice in Prescribing Medicines (September 2008) Our booklet Good Medical Practice(2006) sets out in paragraphs 1 to 3 and 20 to 23 the principles that doctors must follow when prescribing medicines. The guidance below explains how these principles apply in situations that doctors often meet, or find hard to deal with.
[Good practices in prescribing benzodiazepines]
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 30385184[Good practices in prescribing benzodiazepines] Due to pharmacologic tolerance and dependence, benzodiazepines and z-drugs have to be used over short duration of treatment. Three pharmacokinetic characteristics should be taken into account by the prescriber: the galenic form, the plasma half-life, and the presence of an active metabolite. The pat …