Table 1.
Major causative factors for drugs to be classified as off-label or unlicensed (n = 626 off-label, n = 18 unlicensed).
Table 2.
Frequency and percentage of off-label and unlicensed drug use for the 20 most frequently prescribed drugs (n = 868).
Table 3.
Frequency of off label and unlicensed prescribing within each EMEA age classification group, as well as total number of prescriptions per age group.
P value was obtained through a Fisher’s Exact test, due to the small number of unlicensed medicines.
Table 4.
Frequency of prescribing with respect to category based on route of administration.
P value was obtained using a Fisher’s Exact test.
Table 5.
Frequency of off label and unlicensed prescribing for each ATC class, and as a percentage of overall prescribing for each ATC class (n = 1160).
Table 6.
Number (percentage) of patients who received at least one of the drugs in the given groups.
Table 7.
Frequency of licensed, off-label and unlicensed drugs prescribed to paediatric patients in the six most common WHO major diagnostic categories.