Consumption of medicines in high-risk pregnancy: evaluation of determinants related to the use of prescription drugs and self-medication
The use of drugs during pregnancy still represents a challenge for medicine, since the majority of drugs cross the placental barrier with a potential to cause several congenital problems to the fetus, and most of them have not been clinically tested in pregnant patients. At the same time, the medica...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2013-09-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502013000300010&lng=en&tlng=en |