Off label prescribing to children in primary care in Germany: retrospective cohort study.

نویسندگان

  • Reinhild Bücheler
  • Matthias Schwab
  • Klaus Mörike
  • Bernhard Kalchthaler
  • Hartmut Mohr
  • Helmut Schröder
  • Peter Schwoerer
  • Christoph H Gleiter
چکیده

Between 35% and 90% of the drugs prescribed to hospitalised children are either not licensed for children’s use or are prescribed outside the terms of their product licence (off label prescribing). 2 Subsequent adverse reactions are more likely than with licensed products (6.0% v 3.9%). We analysed the extent of prescribing off labelled products in a representative cohort of children in primary care.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • BMJ

دوره 324 7349  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002