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A Survey of Use in Pediatric Outpatients

Cathy Faw; Ron Ballentine, PharmD; Lois Ballentine; Jan vanEys, PhD, MD

JAMA. 1977;238(14):1536-1538.

Abstract
Sixty-nine patients or parents of patients were interviewed during a five-week period. Each interviewee was given a questionnaire listing commonly recommended unproved drugs, diets, and miscellaneous treatments, and was instructed to respond to each remedy as follows: Have you tried it? Have you considered trying it? Has it been recommended by someone else?

Six patients (8.7%) had tried at least one unproved remedy, four (5.8%) considered trying some other remedy, and recommendations to seek other remedies had been made to 17 patients (24.6%).

Laetrile and assistance from faith healers were the remedies named most frequently.

(JAMA 238:1536-1538, 1977)

Author Affiliations
From the College of Pharmacy, University of Houston (Ms Faw and Dr Ballentine); the Departments of Pharmacy Services (Dr Ballentine) and Pediatrics (Dr vanEys), University of Texas System Cancer Center, M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute; and the Department of Pharmacy Services, Sam Houston Memorial Hospital (Ms Ballentine).

Footnotes
Presented as an exhibit before the 11th Annual American Society of Hospital Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting, Anaheim, Calif, Dec 7, 1976.

Reprint requests to Drug Information Service, University of Texas System Cancer Center, Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr Ballentine).

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