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AMA Manual of Style (10th edition ed.) : A Guide for Authors and Editors

AMA Manual of Style Committee

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Mar 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780195176339
Published to AMA Manual of Style:
Apr 2009
DOI:
10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001
© American Medical Association
Contents

Drug Preparation Names That Include a Percentage

Chapter:
Nomenclature
Author(s):

Margaret A. Winker

15.4.10 Drug Preparation Names That Include a Percentage

Some drug names, such as those used in topical preparations, include the percentage of active drug contained in the preparation. In these cases the percentage should be listed after the drug name.

The patient was treated with adalapalene gel, 1%.

Metronidazole lotion, 0.75%, was applied twice a day.