Empowering patients to manage minor ailments and use doctors more efficiently can benefit the health system.[ 5 ] Such benefits may be significant, given the forecast increased pressure on health resources globally.[ 6 ] Australia and NZ have long contributed to an international trend to switch medicines to non-prescription availability.
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Widening consumer access to medicines: a comparison of prescription to non-prescription medicine switch in Australia and New Zealand.
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