Tablet-splitting: a common yet not so innocent practice.

Charlotte Verrue; Els Mehuys; Koen Boussery; Jean-Paul Remon; Mirko Petrovic

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Tablet-splitting: a common yet not so innocent practice.

January 19, 2011

Verrue C, Mehuys E, Boussery K, et al. J Adv Nurs. 2011;67(1):26-32.

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Pharmacists and patients commonly split pills in order to increase dose flexibility and make pills easier to swallow. However, this study found that splitting pills resulted in unpredictable dose deviations, which could lead to underdosing or overdosing.

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