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Tan, Mei; Bowers, Megan; Thuma, Phil; Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Efavirenz (EFV) is a well-known, effective anti-retroviral drug long used in first-line treatment for children and adults with HIV and HIV/AIDS. Due to its narrow window of effective concentrations, between 1 and 4 µg/mL, and neurological side effects at supratherapeutic levels, several investigations into the pharmacokinetics of the drug and its…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Neurology
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Günhan, Burak Kürsad; Röver, Christian; Friede, Tim – Research Synthesis Methods, 2020
Meta-analyses of clinical trials targeting rare events face particular challenges when the data lack adequate numbers of events for all treatment arms. Especially when the number of studies is low, standard random-effects meta-analysis methods can lead to serious distortions because of such data sparsity. To overcome this, we suggest the use of…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Medical Research, Drug Therapy, Bayesian Statistics
Shahidullah, Jeffrey D. – Communique, 2012
Psychotropic medications are increasingly used to treat children and adolescents with mental health conditions. Between the years 1994 and 2001, there was a 191.7% increase in number of office visits resulting in a psychotropic medication prescription among children and adolescents. Many drugs are prescribed to children "off-label", whereby they…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Mental Health, Children, Adolescents