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To investigate the off-label drug use of escitalopram in children and adolescents, and to provide a reference for rational clinical medication.
Collected prescription data of children and adolescents (<18 years) receiving antidepressant treatment, including gender, age, clinical diagnosis, drug name, dosage, frequency and route of administration. Based on domestic drug labeling, we assessed whether escitalopram was used off-label, and further conducted evidence-based searches regarding its off-label drug use. A literature search was conducted using the keywords escitalopram, off-label use, evidence-based medicine, children and adolescents across multiple electronic databases, including PubMed, Embase, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang and VIP.
This study included a total of 156 504 outpatients, with escitalopram prescribed to 9 798, the off-label use rate was 6.26%. An analysis of the off-label use of escitalopram was conducted based on 22 articles, including the original drug instructions, evidence-based databases and related medical literature, the results demonstrated that escitalopram was supported by evidence for the use of both depression and generalized anxiety disorder in children and adolescents.
Escitalopram has preliminary evidence-based support for its use in children and adolescent patients, it is an off-label application. Therefore, clinical practice should strengthen the supervision and management of off-label use of escitalopram to ensure medication safety for patients.
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