Compassionate drug (mis)use during pandemics: lessons for COVID-19 from 2009

Abstract Background New emerging infections have no known treatment. Assessing potential drugs for safety and efficacy enables clinicians to make evidence-based treatment decisions and contributes to overall outbreak control. However, it is difficult to launch clinical trials in the unpredictable en...

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Main Authors: Amanda M. Rojek, Genevieve E. Martin, Peter W. Horby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01732-5