Background and objective To provide an overview of drug use in outpatient children in
France, a population-based study using a national reimbursement claims database …

To define and evaluate the attention devoted to drug use in children rather than just review
existing reviews, the present attempt is to seek out the primary sources of information in the …

Aims To determine the extent of drug use in children and the types of drugs that children
use. Methods Cross‐sectional study and cohort study, using computerized pharmacy …

Purpose To evaluate the drug prescription pattern in outpatient children. Methods A
systematic literature search was performed in MEDLINE and EMBASE to identify studies …

Objective To provide an overview of drug use in children in three European countries.
Design Retrospective cohort study, 2000-5. Setting Primary care research databases in the …

Objectives: To characterise the pattern of drug prescribing in Danish children below 19
years of age. Methods: We used the Odense Pharmacoepidemiologic Database to identify …

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS SUBJECT• Drug utilization studies performed in
the Italian paediatric population have found a prescription profile that appears to be specific …

We examined the pattern of prescribed drug use in Danish children and used a
pharmacoepidemio‐logical prescription database to identify all reimbursed prescriptions for …

Aims of this survey were to evaluate prescription patterns for children and adolescents in
primary and hospital care settings in Austria and to identify the medicines used most …

Purpose To study the prevalence of prescribed and over‐the‐counter (OTC) medicine use in
children under 12 years of age in Finland and to examine factors associated with the …