A nurse is teaching nursing students about pediatric medication administration. What will the nurse include when discussing pediatric drug research?
a. Early studies revealed that less than 10% of drugs known to be effective in adults were effective in children.
b. Research findings show that drug doses may be safely calculated by extrapolating adult dosing.
c. Studies showed a significant percentage of unanticipated and potentially lethal side effects in children.
d. There is no need to continue with pedia-tric-specific drug research, since early studies were reassuring.
C
In early studies, about 30% of drugs caused unanticipated side effects, some of them potentially lethal. These same studies revealed that about 20% of drugs were ineffective in children and that about 20% of drugs required doses different from those extrapolated from adult dosing. Because the early studies showed that there is much to learn, the BPCA and PREA were permanently reauthorized by Congress in 2012.
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