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Dose optimisation following myocardial infarction
Author(s) -
Petty Duncan,
Khatib Rani
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1319
Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , secondary prevention , beta (programming language) , intensive care medicine , cardiology , pharmacology , computer science , programming language
Dose optimisation of medicines for secondary prevention of MI provides evidence‐based benefits, but studies show that ACE inhibitors and beta‐blockers are prescribed at suboptimal doses on discharge and are not appropriately up‐titrated thereafter. Here we look at the reasons why and the possible solutions.