title: Hospital pharmacies watch prescriptions as debate rages over 'off-label' drug use.
abstract: Hospital pharmacies are closely monitoring physicians' prescribing practices in an effort to restrain drug expenditures by ensuring that drugs are used appropriately. But controversy continues over whether the increasingly common practice of using drugs for non-FDA-approved applications is appropriate and whether those uses should be allowed and covered by health insurers.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Wagner
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D004341:Drug Evaluation; D004348:Drug Labeling / Q000191:economics*; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000592:standards*; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration