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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-08-01
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Series: | BMC Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01732-5 |