The idea is being pioneered by a new unit, based at the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, which will be the first in Britain to monitor and investigate routine prescribing of medicines to children. It will aggregate data on up to 300,000 children from GPs across Scotland.
Children are often prescribed medicines that have not been licensed for their use because there is less commercial interest around developing medicines for them.
Professor Peter Helms, professor of child health at the University of Aberdeen, which is running the unit in conjunction with the hospital, said the messages would recommend the safest dose and best preparation to use and could appear electronically when a first prescription was entered.
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