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

Authors :: Bucheler, Reinhild
Schwab, Matthias
Morike, Klaus
Kalchthaler, Bernhard
Mohr, Hartmut
Schroder, Helmut
Schwoerer, Peter
Gleiter, Christoph H
Source :: BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition); 6/1/2002, Vol. 324 Issue 7349, p1311-1312, 2p, 1 Chart
Publication Year :: 2002
Abstract: Analyzes the extent of prescribing off labelled products in a representative cohort of children in primary care in Germany. Patients, methods, and results; Finding that 13.2 percent of prescriptions were off label; Suggestion that efforts to improve the quality of pharmacotherapy in children should not exclude widely marketed and firmly established drugs.

Subjects :: DRUG prescribing
MEDICAL care
PEDIATRIC pharmacology
DRUG labeling

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