The risk of drug – herb interactions among patients during palliative and hospice care

Adam Kowalczyk; Feliks Błaszczyk; Anna Orońska; Aleksandra K. Królak

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Medycyna Paliatywna/Palliative Medicine

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The risk of drug – herb interactions among patients during palliative and hospice care

Adam Kowalczyk

,

Feliks Błaszczyk

,

Anna Orońska

,

Aleksandra K. Królak

Medycyna Paliatywna 2014; 6(3): 140–144

Online publish date: 2014/11/05

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The increasing popularity of herbal remedies and the fact that patients more and more often treat themselves can lead to a higher risk of interactions between medicine prescribed by doctors and herbal treatment. Both doctors and patients should take this fact under consideration, because the simultaneous reception of such products can endanger the safety and the efficiency of undertaken pharmacotherapy.

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The risk of drug – herb interactions among patients during palliative and hospice care

Adam Kowalczyk , Feliks Błaszczyk , Anna Orońska , Aleksandra K. Królak

drug interactions, palliative and hospice medicine

Adam Kowalczyk

,

Feliks Błaszczyk

,

Anna Orońska

,

Aleksandra K. Królak