Essential drugs for infants and children: European perspective.

نویسنده

  • I Choonara
چکیده

It is difficult to draw up a list of medicines that are essential for infants and children. It is clear, however, that many of the medicines used appropriately to treat infants and children are not licensed for such use.1 The medicines concerned may be used outside the terms of their product license, ie, used off-label, or unlicensed for use in children at any age.2 Off-label use appears to be a more significant problem than is unlicensed use of drugs in children. Medicines may be used off-label in relation to dose, indication, age, and route of administration.2 A helpful way to categorize medicines for children was outlined recently in the European Guidelines on the Clinical Investigation of Medicinal Products in Children. This consists of four separate groups of medicines, as follows:

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Pediatrics

دوره 104 3 Pt 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999