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Safety of fluoxetine use in children and adolescents: a disproportionality analysis of the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database

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  1. Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK

    Iole N. Christodoulos & Prasad S. Nishtala

  2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Te-yuan Chyou

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Christodoulos, I.N., Chyou, Ty. & Nishtala, P.S. Safety of fluoxetine use in children and adolescents: a disproportionality analysis of the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 76, 1775–1776 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-020-02970-5

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