It's also an anaesthetic according to Australian law, but can technically be administered "off-label" as an experimental treatment.
Patients represented a diagnostically heterogeneous population, and almost all antipsychotic drugs were administered off-label.
At the USB, quetiapine is administered off-label for the prevention of delirium in the postoperative setting, starting at doses of 5 mg/day with 5 mg capsules exclusively produced at the hospital pharmacy.
But Wexler, following the lead of dermatological innovators on the West Coast, started administering it off label, a common medical practice.
"When it's approved for PTSD in the US physicians, psychologists, and therapists will be able to administer MDMA off-label as well," Burge said.
In a telephone interview, Dr. Carragee said that doctors often administered Infuse off-label at levels significantly above the recommended dosages, ones that approach or exceed the amount of rhBMP-2 found in a dose of Amplify.
In our study, different medicines were administered for off-label use for a diverse range of clinical conditions and often with a low level of available evidence.
While propofol has been linked to patient deaths in unrelated procedures, Dr. Rex said estimates that it has been administered "off label" by gastroenterologists and trained nurses in more than 450,000 colonoscopy screenings without a single major adverse outcome being reported.
Although Mrs Fastow filed false tax statements and created and administered an off-balance-sheet special-purpose entity that Enron used to hide its control of some Californian wind farms, some reports have claimed she was an innocent who fell under the malevolent influence of her husband.
Because people in their 50s account for one in every seven cases of shingles, some physicians administer the vaccine "off label" to those younger than 60, even though its safety and effectiveness in younger people are not known.
