Don’t treat off-label scripts like CAM, Medical Board told
The AMA says proposed guidelines on alternative therapies may have 'unintended consequences'
Off-label prescribing by doctors needs to be left out of any regulatory clampdown on complementary and alternative medicine, the AMA says.
The AMA has warned that doctors who write off-label scripts for evidence-based therapies are being lumped together with those offering herbal remedies and even homeopathy, under draft guidelines drawn up by the Medical Board of Australia last year.
