Commentary Open Access
Volume 5 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Pharmacol.4.036
Off Label Use as an Indicator of Therapeutic Need in Pediatrics
Silvia Miriam Cammarata1,2,*
- 1Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA), Via del Tritone, 181, 00187, Rome, Italy
- 2Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health, Section of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Florence, Viale G. Pieraccini, 6, 50139, Florence, Italy
Corresponding Author
Silvia Miriam Cammarata, s.cammarata@aifa.gov.it
Received Date: November 11, 2022
Accepted Date: November 21, 2022
Cammarata SM. Off Label Use as an Indicator of Therapeutic Need in Pediatrics. Arch Pharmacol Ther. 2023;5(1):1-4.
Copyright: © 2023 Cammarata SM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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