The seven-year rule for safer prescribing

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The seven-year rule for safer prescribing

Postby JeffN » Mon Nov 21, 2022 1:37 pm

The seven-year rule for safer prescribing
Editorial
Aust Prescr 2012;35:138-9
1 October 2012
DOI: 10.18773/austprescr.2012.062
Australian Prescriber An independent Review
ISSUE 5 OCTOBER

https://www.nps.org.au/australian-presc ... rescribing

The Health Research Group’s seven-year rule

You should wait at least seven years from the date of release to take any new drug unless it is one of those rare ‘breakthrough’ drugs that offers you a documented therapeutic advantage over older proven drugs. New drugs are tested in a relatively small number of people before being released, and serious adverse effects or life-threatening drug interactions may not be detected until the new drug has been taken by hundreds of thousands of people. A number of new drugs have been withdrawn within their first seven years after release. Also, warnings about serious new adverse reactions have been added to the labelling of a number of drugs, or new drug interactions have been detected, usually within the first seven years after a drug’s release.


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