The pandemic ’s challenge to evidence-based medicine shows off-label use is an important tool

In 2020, the medical and research communities have scrambled towards finding an effective intervention against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. And in lieu of data from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions against the disease (considered the gold standard of evidence), clinicians were forced to consider lesser forms of evidence, and prescribe ‘off-label’ — the sometimes controversial practice in which a drug is prescribed outside of its original licensed intention.
Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research