January 28, 2008 
I cut this from one of the many e-mail clipping services I use. It said that “20% …of the 725 million U.S. prescriptions written in 2001 went to treat conditions not approved on the drugs’ labels” according to a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
I always wonder:
- How do physicians know to use a prescription off label?
- How is that information shared? (I think drug reps are prohibited from promoting off-label use.)
- How do patients and pharmacists respond to off-label use?
Enabling Healthy Decisions 
Very surprising statistic… we’ll have to check out that piece of research. Thanks for the heads up. (Your blog is daily reading over here, by the way.)