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Comparative Study
. 1979 Mar 17;1(8116):599-601.
doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(79)91020-1.

Returned-medicines campaign in Birmingham, 1977

D W Harris, D S Karandikar, M G Spencer, R H Leach, A C Bower, G A Mander
Comparative Study

Returned-medicines campaign in Birmingham, 1977

D W Harris et al. Lancet. .

Abstract

In a returned-medicines campaign lasting 3 weeks 362000 tablets and capsules were returned in 11400 containers from a population of 1.05 million. This yield was considered low. A comparison of hospital admission figures for childhood poisoning before, during, and immediately after the campaign suggests that the publicity and the destruction of unwanted medicines had little preventive value. The quantities of different medicines returned were roughly proportional to the quantities prescribed.

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