Abstract

Letter to Editor

Criteria for paediatric oral liquid form

Daniela Gavrus, Ferran Bossacoma Busquets*, Josep Maria Català, Joan Lluis Vinent Genestar and Miquel Villaronga Flaque

Published: 26 March, 2021 | Volume 5 - Issue 1 | Pages: 018-019

Paediatric hospitals frequently have to face the lack of commercially available medicines suitable or even licensed for their use in paediatrics. Thus, only one-third of all medicines approved by the European Medicines Agency over the period of 1995 to 2005 were licensed for use in children [1]. 

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