Oral solid dosage forms that should not be crushed: 1994 revision.
This revision and update of an article published previously in Hospital Pharmacy (1992; 27:690-699) alerts healthcare practitioners about medications that should not be crushed. This list serves those who dispense and administer medications so that potential problems associated with disruption of special pharmaceutical formulations may be prevented. Products are identified that should not be crushed and for which a similar liquid form is available.
Mitchell
J F
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Garden City Hospital, MI 48135.
Pawlicki
K S
KS
D000284:Administration, Oral; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems / Q000592:standards*; D004345:Drug Industry; D004346:Drug Information Services; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States