Trends in Prescription Medication Use Among Children and Adolescents-United States, 1999-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Access to appropriate prescription medications, use of inappropriate or ineffective treatments, and adverse drug events are public health concerns among US children and adolescents.

Objective

To evaluate trends in use of prescription medications among US children and adolescents.

Design, setting, and participants

US children and adolescents aged 0 to 19 years in the 1999-2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)-serial cross-sectional, nationally representative surveys of the civilian noninstitutionalized population.

Exposures

Sex, age, race and Hispanic origin, household income and education, insurance status, current health status.

Main outcomes and measures

Use of any prescription medications or 2 or more prescription m

SUBMITTER: Hales CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583241 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature