Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety

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PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND PRESCRIPTION Identification of severe potential drug-drug interactions using an Italian general-practitioner database

Objective To analyze prescriptions in a general-practitioner database over 1 year to determine the frequency, the characteristics, and the monitoring of the severe potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Methods We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records from 16 general practitioners in theVeneto region, an area in northern Italy. The study covered the period from January 1 to December 3...

Pharmacoepidemiology, Adverse and Beneficial Effects

Pharmacoepidemiology has been defined as “the study of the distribution and determinants of drugrelated events in populations and the application of this study to efficacious drug treatment” [26]. Similar definitions have been given by several authors [37, 53]. The term “drug” in the definition is generally understood to include biologics, such as vaccines, and the populations are understood to...