Pharmacoepidemiology

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Pharmacoepidemiology

edited by Brian L. Strom

Churchill Livingstone, 1989

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Includes bibliographies and index

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Description

This is a survey of the application of the principles of epidemiology to clinical pharmacology. As well as providing background information on what is included in this field, it also describes the systems developed to perform pharmcoepidemiologic studies.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1: What is pharmacoepidemiology?
  • study designs available for pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • when should one perform pharmacoepidemiology studies. Part 2 Perspectives on pharmacoepidemiology: the view from academia
  • pharmacoepidemiology - the view from academia
  • pharmacoepidemiology - the view from industry
  • pharmacoepidemiology - the view from a regulatory agency
  • pharmacoepidemiology - the view from a US court room. Part 3 Systems available for pharmacoepidemiology studies: spontaneous reporting system in the US
  • spontaneous reporting systems outside the US
  • intensive hospital-based cohort studies
  • group health cooperative of Puget sound
  • Kaiser permanente medical care program - northern California and other regions
  • medicaid data bases
  • health data bases in Saskatchewan
  • the Rhode island drug use reporting scheme
  • inpatient data bases
  • other approaches to ppharmacoepidemiology studies
  • how should one perform pharmacoepidemiology studies? Part 4 Selected methodologic issues in pharmacoepidemiology: studies of drug utilization
  • determining causation from case reports
  • screening for unknown effects of newly-marketed drugs
  • the use of pharmacoepidemiology to study benefical drug effects
  • application of health economics to the study of drug effects
  • using epidmiologic methods to individualize drug therapy. Part 5 Conclusion: the future of pharmacoepidemiology.

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