Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
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  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
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"Prescribing off-label drugs for children: when will it change?"

The Lancet

A study in Pediatrics, published on Sept 16, paints a famil­iar picture. Using data from the US National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys 2006–15, Divya Hoon and colleagues show that in 44·5% of visits to office­based physicians who prescribed systemic drugs to children, these drugs were prescribed off label.