[Difficulties in fixing the official dosage of drugs in children].
In the French Pharmacopoeia there is a table of doses of drugs for pediatric use, which is to be hold as an official document. Some of the problems raised for establishing these doses are discussed in this paper: choice of age-ranges, selection of drugs, way of expressing doses, interest or not to indicate maximal doses, spread of these data to medical prescribers and pharmacists.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010372:Pediatrics; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
Difficultés rencontrées pour fixer la posologie officielle des médicaments chez l'enfant.