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2017•European Journal of Hospital PharmacyOpen access

Pharmacists’ role in off-label drug use in China

Zhihua Zheng, Yingtong Zeng, Hongbing Huang

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Off-label drug use is a global issue, which is not uniformly regulated across the world. There is no legislation on off-label drug use in China, while some public media reports in the country said that off-label drug use was illegal and of concern to Chinese healthcare professionals. The Guangdong Province Pharmaceutical Association issued consensuses on off-label drug use in 2010 and 2014, which are the first sets of standards for off-label drug use in China, and has done a lot of work to change the perspective on off-label drug use …

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Off-label drug use is a global issue, which is not uniformly regulated across the world. There is no legislation on off-label drug use in China, while some public media reports in the country said that off-label drug use was illegal and of concern to Chinese healthcare professionals. The Guangdong Province Pharmaceutical Association issued consensuses on off-label drug use in 2010 and 2014, which are the first sets of standards for off-label drug use in China, and has done a lot of work to change the perspective on off-label drug use …

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Off-label drug use is a global issue, which is not uniformly regulated across the world. There is no legislation on off-label drug use in China, while some public media reports in the country said that off-label drug use was illegal and of concern to Chinese healthcare professionals. The Guangdong Province Pharmaceutical Association issued consensuses on off-label drug use in 2010 and 2014, which are the first sets of standards for off-label drug use in China, and has done a lot of work to change the perspective on off-label drug use …

Key concepts: Drug, Off-label use, Medicine, Pharmacy, China, Pharmacology, Family medicine, History

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