Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty
Prescribing of drugs for children is not always in accordance with their registration specifications or they may even be unlicensed which can give rise to serious adverse events. This study has found that approximately 30% of drugs prescribed in a major teaching hospital for children did not conform...
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Curtin University
2014
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| description | Prescribing of drugs for children is not always in accordance with their registration specifications or they may even be unlicensed which can give rise to serious adverse events. This study has found that approximately 30% of drugs prescribed in a major teaching hospital for children did not conform to the registration specifications. It has also proposed methods to improve evidenced-based prescribing in children. In addition it has provided enhanced scientific information for the prescribing of lincomycin infusions. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-5542017-02-20T06:42:29Z Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty Czarniak, Petra Prescribing of drugs for children is not always in accordance with their registration specifications or they may even be unlicensed which can give rise to serious adverse events. This study has found that approximately 30% of drugs prescribed in a major teaching hospital for children did not conform to the registration specifications. It has also proposed methods to improve evidenced-based prescribing in children. In addition it has provided enhanced scientific information for the prescribing of lincomycin infusions. 2014 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/554 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Czarniak, Petra Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| title | Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| title_full | Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| title_fullStr | Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| title_full_unstemmed | Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| title_short | Issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: Off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| title_sort | issues with the use of medicines in paediatrics: off-label and unlicensed use, and formulation uncertainty |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/554 |