that ought to be the corresponding term in English . Complacency prescriptions designed to increase the turnover.

Another set of issues which deserves attention is inappropriate prescribing. Seniors are more likely to receive prescriptions for medication that are potentially inappropriate; 11% to 46% of seniors receive at least one inappropriate prescription per year9,68-78. Inappropriate prescriptions include drugs that are relatively contraindicated by virtue of co-existing disease (drug-disease contraindications), by other drugs in an individual's treatment regimen (drug-drug interaction, therapeutic duplication), by age (drugs contraindicated in older persons) or by treatment duration (excess duration). Prescribing errors account for approximately 19% to 36% of drug-related hospital admissions79,80. The co-existence of multiple prescribing physicians, the number of drugs currently in the market (over 24,000), the number of relative contraindications documented (over 33,000) and deficiencies in physician knowledge related to both age and training are important contributors to the risk of inappropriate prescriptions81-83.

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or delivered at the instigation of the patient. Ellen's comment has given me a little more confidence
La prescription de complaisance est un autre sujet qui mérite qu'on s'y arrête. Les personnes âgées sont plus susceptibles de se faire prescrire des médicaments probablement non indiqués ; 11 à 46 % d'entre elles reçoivent au moins une ordonnance non indiquée par année9, 68-78. Dans les prescriptions de complaisance nous incluons les médicaments qui sont plus ou moins contre-indiqués en raison d'une maladie concomitante (contre-indication médicament-maladie), en raison de la présence d'un médicament dans le régime médicamenteux (interaction médicament-médicament, médicament qui fait double emploi), de l'âge (médicaments contre-indiqués pour les personnes âgées) ou de la durée du traitement (durée excessive). Les erreurs de prescription représentent à peu près de 19 à 36 % des admissions à l'hôpital pour cause médicamenteuse79, 80. La coexistence de plusieurs médecins prescripteurs, le nombre de médicaments actuellement commercialisés (plus de 24 000), le nombre de contre-indications relatives documentées (plus de 33 000) et les lacunes dans les connaissances des médecins attribuables à leur âge et à leur formation sont d'importants facteurs qui contribuent à accroître le risque de la prescription de complaisance81

Is this what you are looking for? There are lots of articles on the net about it.

3 Aug 2007 ... produce to testify that any particular prescription was unjustified, .... A physician should not be contributing to putting prescription ...
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unjustified prescription under patient pressure

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Patient pressure demanding a prescription is known to influence ... of patient pressure, reduced unjustified antimicrobial prescription (Chuc and others ...
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Another suggestion, although I still feel that something better could be found.
It is a rephrasing of Sophie's "prescribing unneeded medication at the patient's request"
I feel that "inappropriate" does not reflect the patient's input in the affair.
"Complacency" got shot-down.
"patient-driven" sounds good to me but as Tony pointed out it does not reflect the unnecessary character of the prescription "de complaisance".

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I think that the best translation would be "illegitimate prescription".
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=ma&vo...
www.painandthelaw.org/mayday/brushwood_042606.php
http://books.google.com/books?id=7VrQy2d8PxYC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA...
http://www.aslme.org/research/mayday/24.4/24.4c.php

Jlsjr suggested this first, on the basis of a comment I'd originally made; I am just posting it here in order to give it greater prominence for the benefit of future glossary users.