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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Off-Label Prescribing"”.
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Effects of Off-Label Prescribing on Patient Decision Making
Objectives: Despite the comuse of off-label prescribing in the US, no research has been conducted to understand the impact of off-label prescribing on patient decision making. This study sought to measure the impact on trust in physicians, intentions of involvement in the decision making, beliefs …
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Willingness to Influence Indication-Based Off-Label Prescribing: an Investigation of Hospital Pharmacists
Off-label prescribing is a comand legal practice in the United States. However, off-label prescribing occurs oftentimes with inadequate evidence of effectiveness. Such practice, especially when prescribing for disease conditions different from approved clinical indications (indication-based …
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Antipsychotic prescribing as a treatment of dementia in British Columbia: physician-level characteristics associated with receiving potentially inappropriate prescriptions
Antipsychotic prescribing has increased. One attribute of this is off-label prescribing of antipsychotics to people with dementia to treat behavioural and psychological symptoms, which is not supported by evidence-informed guidelines. This manuscript investigated physician-level factors associated …
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Framing's Influence on Maternal Acceptability of Off-Label Risperdal in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Treatment
… health professionals have recently started prescribing second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs), like Risperdal, to ADHD youth without the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval. This off-label prescribing trend is increasingly becoming common practice despite variability in …
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Physician behavior and technology diffusion in health care
… regions and find that physicians who start off in the same region and subsequently move to dissimilar regions practice similarly before the move but very differently after the move. Based on this change in behavior, baseline estimates imply that the role of the environment on physician …
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Investigations of Pharmacokinetic Challenges in Premature Infants
… due to their immaturity at birth. Currently, off-label prescribing is common in younger pediatric populations, especially in premature neonates and infants, which is a primary group receiving intensive care. Unique pharmacokinetic (PK) challenges—such as limited blood volume and frequency of …