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Off-label prescribing: best practice or malpractice?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2013

Stephen M. Stahl
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Abstract

ISSUE:Standards for the practice of medicine are increasingly being confused with standards for the sale and reimbursement of medicines. Authority for prescribing of psychotropic drugs, whether on-label or off-label, is determined by the standard of medical care set by practitioners, not by regulators of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Brainstorms
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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