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COMPASSIONATE USE [1 record]

Record 1 2004-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Epidemiology
DEF

A method of providing experimental drugs to very sick patients who have no other treatment options.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Épidémiologie
CONT

Un anti-rétroviral, la didéoxycytidine (ddC), est prescrit depuis un an aux États-Unis, et est disponible gratuitement en France à titre humanitaire.

OBS

compassionnel : calque de l'anglais.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
  • Epidemiología
DEF

Empleo de ciertos medicamentos a pesar de no estar aún registrados y de los cuales no se tiene suficiente información, sobre todo de sus efectos secundarios y a largo plazo, pero que se aplican a determinados pacientes [cuyo estado] no les permite aguardar más tiempo y en los cuales se espera que el medicamento tenga algún efecto benéfico inmediato [...]

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