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- Title
Off-label prescribing in palliative care – a cross-sectional national survey of Palliative Medicine doctors.
- Authors
To, Timothy Hm; Agar, Meera; Shelby-James, Tania; Abernethy, Amy P; Doogue, Matthew; Rowett, Debra; Ko, Danielle; Currow, David C
- Abstract
The article discusses a study conducted to document off-label use policies (including disclosure and consent) in Australian palliative care units and current practices by palliative care clinicians. The study included survey asking clinicians their most frequent off-label medication/indication dyads and unit policies. It states that dyads were classified into unregistered, off-label and on-label, and for the latter. It is concluded that off-label prescribing is poorly recognized by clinicians.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; CHI-squared test; DRUG prescribing; FISHER exact test; PALLIATIVE treatment; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; PHYSICIAN practice patterns; OFF-label use (Drugs); CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 4, p320
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216312464263