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Off-label paediatric prescribing in Stockholm (Sweden): a response to a letter to the editor

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  1. Division of Clinical Pharmacology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Utilisation Research and Clinical Pharmacological Services, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, 14186, Stockholm, Sweden

    Mike Ufer & Ulf Bergman

  2. Pharmacoepidemiology Centre (LÄKSAK), Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ulf Bergman

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Ufer, M., Bergman, U. Off-label paediatric prescribing in Stockholm (Sweden): a response to a letter to the editor. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 59, 493–494 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00228-003-0644-9

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