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Access options for withdrawn motility‐modifying agents
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/0115426503018001105c
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine
There seems to be a paucity of agents brought to market for patients with motility or functional digestive disorders, and several agents felt to be truly efficacious have been withdrawn. Treatment options are available particularly if practitioners are willing to pursue alternative prescribing approaches. This article describes mechanisms by which physicians may safely obtain prokinetic agents commonly regarded as inaccessible.