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Pediatrics
Just 2% of child drug trials included independent safety checks says review of over 700 studies
April 5th, 2008
Only two per cent of paediatric drug trials reported that they had established independent safety monitoring committees that can help lead to the early detection of adverse drug reactions, according to a major review in the April issue of Acta Paediatrica. Child health researchers from the University of Nottingham, UK, carried out a detailed analysis of 739 international drug trials published between 1996 and 2002 to see what safety measures were in place and to monitor the levels of adverse drug reactions. Just under three-quarters of the trials (74 per cent) described how safety monitoring was performed during the study, but only 13 studies (two...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-04-05)
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