title: [Legal aspects of medication prescription].
abstract: Legal directives concerning drug treatment prescription mainly focus on drug safety, conduct of clinical trials according to good clinical practice, foundation of drug therapy on solid evidence, and, in view of rapidly increasing drug expenditures, on control of costs spent on drugs by health insurance systems. Legal aspects of drug treatment are discussed in this paper, with emphasis on current interests such as pharmacovigilance and off-label drug use, as well as on primary duties of the physicians in charge of drug prescriptions.
authors.affiliation: Robert-Rössle-Klinik im HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch. wludwig@berlin.helios-kliniken.de
authors.forename: Wolf-Dieter
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Ludwig
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards