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Off-Label Prescribing in Older People

The Need for Increased Awareness and Caution

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This work was supported by a Team Grant (OTG-88591) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes. Dr Stephenson is supported by a CIHR post-doctoral fellowship salary support award. The authors have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article.

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  1. St. Michael’s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, 6th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5B 1W8

    Anne Stephenson

  2. Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Anne Stephenson, Geoffrey M. Anderson & Paula Rochon

  3. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Geoffrey M. Anderson & Paula Rochon

  4. Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Geoffrey M. Anderson & Paula Rochon

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Stephenson, A., Anderson, G.M. & Rochon, P. Off-Label Prescribing in Older People. Drugs Aging 29, 435–436 (2012). https://doi.org/10.2165/11634620-000000000-00000

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