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off-label use

use of pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines for an unapproved indication concerning the treatment of a particular disease or condition as designated by a regulatory agency
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off-label use

Summary

off-label use ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (225 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • off-label use's GND ID is recorded as 7524506-1[2].
  • off-label use's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2019003668[3].
  • off-label use's IdRef ID is recorded as 154374628[4].
  • off-label use's subclass of is recorded as medical prescription[5].
  • off-label use's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D056687[6].
  • off-label use's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/059nl8[7].
  • off-label use's MeSH tree code is recorded as E02.319.307.500[8].
  • off-label use's facet of is recorded as regulatory affairs[9].
  • off-label use's BBC Things ID is recorded as 0c207e7c-1500-4c01-87c7-b3f62ace4473[10].
  • off-label use's different from is recorded as drug repositioning[11].
  • off-label use's FAST ID is recorded as 2009972[12].
  • off-label use's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1096117[13].
  • off-label use's Quora topic ID is recorded as Off-label-Use[14].
  • off-label use's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 188313352[15].
  • off-label use's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987012575085405171[16].
  • off-label use's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C188313352[17].
  • off-label use's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/cc2be53e-d3ac-48b1-a6d9-ed10f4d051f3[18].

Why It Matters

off-label use ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (225 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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