Off-label medicine use/prescribing controversies through patients' eyes/"rights": the example of povidone-iodine enemas/suppositories for "terminal" pouchitis

Off-label medicine use/prescribing controversies through patients' eyes/"rights": the example of povidone-iodine enemas/suppositories for "terminal" pouchitis

Off-label drug use/prescribing, although not uncommon by any means, is often stigmatized when no benefits and/or adverse effects occur, occasionally leading to legal vulnerability for doctors, especially when considered "experimental". Viewing the matter through a patient's insistence...

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Main Author: Constantine Davanas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Pan African Medical Journal 2019-07-01
Series:The Pan African Medical Journal
Subjects:
off-label medicine use/prescribing
povidone iodine
pouchitis
patients´ rights
Online Access: https://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/33/155/pdf/155.pdf

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