… majority of hospitalised paediatric patients received at least one drug under off-label and/or …
prescription of off-label and/or unlicenced drugs was highest among the younger patients, …

… patient population, the impact of unlicensed and off-label drug use on ADRs in paediatric
patients… have been judged to be unlicensed or off label. Comparable data in the literature vary …

… outside the terms of their product licence (off label).The appropriateness of such prescribing …
General practitioners may be asked to prescribe unlicensed or off label drugs by specialists …

… We undertook a retrospective, observational study of paediatric patients who presented to the
… The annual census of paediatric patients at the participating centres ranged from 17 000 to …

… Medication approval and registration is not often sought for paediatric patients and, as a … A
paediatric patient's age or weight may therefore result in the use of the drug being off-label. In …

… Concerning potentially deleterious causes of off label such as contra-indication or route of
… the high level of off-label drug use in ambulatory paediatric patients. Moreover, our data …

… Most of the drugs prescribed off label in the current study are used worldwide, and
possible cross-national differences in the availability of some drugs are not likely to affect the …

… prescription in paediatrics, this study will be repeated annually to identify new off-label
prescription … We did not evaluate the patient information and its chart documentation for off-label …

… Results: 2013 courses of drugs were administered to 609 paediatric patients in 707
admissions. 506 (25%) of the drug courses (prescriptions) were either unlicensed (139) or …

… of downplaying off-label use in the paediatric population and keeping parents uninformed
about the existence of off-label use in paediatrics is ethically problematic. Off-label use is the …