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Assessment of Drugs in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Barbro Westerholm
Barbro Westerholm
Affiliation:
National Corporation of Pharmacies, Sweden
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The assessment of drugs in Sweden has a long tradition that goes back to the seventeenth century when the Collegium Medicorum was established in 1663. One of its duties was to control the production of drugs in pharmacies. In 1688, Sweden got its first pharmacopoeia. In 1917, the Pharmaceutical Laboratory was founded as an advisory body of the National Board of Health and Welfare. The laboratory, now called the Department of Drugs, became responsible for evaluating drug applications, including information on their pharmaceutical and chemical properties, pharmacological actions, and clinical effects.

Type
Special Section: The Evaluation of Drugs: An International Perspective
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 673 - 681
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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