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In their outline, the authors called on prescribing healthcare providers to:
• When possible, turn to treatments that do not require drugs
• Exercise “strategic prescribing,” such as postponing non-urgent drug treatment
• Be increasingly aware of adverse medication outcomes
• Be increasingly cautious of new drugs
• Work with patients on a drug regimen
• Weigh potential long-term impacts or outcomes of prescribing a certain drug or other treatments
Read the article Principles of Conservative Prescribing.
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