Archives of disease in childhood
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Multicenter Study
Drug approval processes in Australian Paediatric Hospitals.
To describe and evaluate the decision-making processes for drug approval in Australian paediatric hospitals. ⋯ Most drug submissions in tertiary paediatric hospitals are approved; however, workload, drug expenditure and individual-patient use schemes vary considerably. Duplication of effort occurs, and few committees are resourced sufficiently given their terms of reference.