underprescribe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To prescribe (a drug) less frequently than appropriate (as operationally defined, for example, by absence of prescription despite an approved indication and without any documented rationale for the overriding medical opinion).

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From under- + prescribe.

overprescribe

underprescription

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