Children Are Not Just Small Adults: The Urgent Need for High-Quality Trial Evidence in Children
Open Access
- 12 August 2008
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 5 (8), e172
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050172
Abstract
Terry Klassen and colleagues discuss a new study examining whether children and adults with drug-resistant partial epilepsy respond differently to antiepileptic drugs.Keywords
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