[WikiEN-l] Rx Dosage Instructions in Wikipedia

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 19:02:48 UTC 2007


On 18/02/07, George Chriss <GChriss at psu.edu> wrote:

> Is there a substantive reason that we provide dosage information on prescription drugs?  I generally remove the following sections on sight:


Please don't do that. It's useful knowledge to know what dosages are
typically given for what.

e.g. amitryptyline, which has quite different dosages for depression
and for chronic pain relief (and has come into its own for the latter
after SSRIs beat it for the former).


- d.



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