TY - BOOK TI - The selection and use of essential medicines: report of the WHO Expert Committee, 2009 SN - 9789241209588 AV - RA 8 .W46 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Geneva, Switzerland PB - World Health Organization KW - ESSENTIAL DRUGS -- ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE N1 - Includes bibliographical references.; PART ONE: 17th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines -- PART TWO: Second Meeting of the Subcommittee of the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines N2 - This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The first part contains a review of the report of a meeting of the Expert Subcommittee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines, held in October 2008. It also provides details of new applications for pediatric medicines and summarizes the Committee's considerations and justifications for additions and changes to the Model List, including its recommendations. Part two of the publication is the report of the second meeting of the Subcommittee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines. Annexes include the revised version of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (the 16th) and the revised version of the WHO List of Essential Medicines for Children (the 2nd). In addition, there is a list of all the items on the Model List sorted according to their Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification codes ER -