Study finds high rates of off-label prescribing

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) More than 10 percent of prescriptions in one Canadian range were for drugs not authorized to provide a patients condition, a new investigate finds. And many times, there was small justification a drugs would work.
A remedy is being used off label if a alloy prescribes it to provide a condition other than a one(s) Health Canada, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration or identical inhabitant regulatory agencies authorized it for formed on tests of reserve and efficacy.
Dr. Tewodros Eguale, who led a new study, pronounced doctors typically allot drugs off-label when their patients destroy to respond to other renouned authorized drugs or when they have a singular condition with few accessible treatments.
Eguale, from McGill University in Montreal, and his colleagues used information on each remedy created by Quebec physicians participating in an electronic health record network. The network is surprising in that it ...