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单词 overprescribe
释义

overprescribe

/əʊvəprɪˈskrʌɪb /
verb [with object]
Prescribe (a drug or treatment) in greater amounts or on more occasions than necessary: doctors have been overprescribing antibiotics for decades...
  • Antimicrobial drugs are overprescribed and inappropriately used.
  • Older adults often are overprescribed antibiotics for treatment of chronic coughs with thickened sputum.
  • Physicians overprescribe antibiotics because of patient demand and fear of lawsuits.

Derivatives

overprescription

/əʊvəprɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ noun ...
  • When people talk about Ritalin the immediate reaction is that there is overprescription.
  • ‘For sheer overprescription, no doctor can touch the American farmer,’ reported Newsweek.
  • While the public concerns itself with overprescription, about half of children with ADHD go without treatment in a given year.
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