Pethidine in emergency departments: promoting evidence-based prescribing

• Karen I Kaye¹
• Susan A Welch²
• Linda V Graudins²
• Andis Graudins³
• Tai Rotem⁴
• Sharon R Davis⁵
• Richard O Day⁵

• 1 NSW Therapeutic Advisory Group, PO Box 766, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010.
• 3 Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
• 4 Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
• 5 Clinical and Experimental Toxicology Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW; and Senior Lecturer (Conjoint), University of New South Wales.
• 6 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

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