The impact of unlicensed and off-label drug use on adverse drug reactions in paediatric patients.

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have revolutionized the treatment of certain forms of cancers, raising hopes for many patients with otherwise unresponsive tumours. While these agents are generally well tolerated, clinical experience with them has highlighted their unexpected association with serious toxic effects on...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Shah DR,Shah RR,Morganroth J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse drug reactions to regulatory bodies and market authorization holders are important in pharmacovigilance. Follow-up information, which can be difficult to obtain, is often required from reporters; therefore, we developed targeted follow-up letters that we hoped would m...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Anton C,Cox AR,Ferner RE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepine drugs have been shown to suppress respiratory function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We designed a placebo-controlled crossover study to compare the effects of a new benzodiazepine, estazolam ('ProSom'), with those of flurazepam ('Dalmane') on cardiopulmonary function in...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Cohn MA,Morris DD,Juan D

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:While medical chart review remains the gold standard to validate health conditions or events identified in administrative claims and electronic health record databases, it is time consuming, expensive and can involve subjective decisions. AIM:The aim of this study was to describe the landscape of technolo...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Straub L,Gagne JJ,Maro JC,Nguyen MD,Beaulieu N,Brown JS,Kennedy A,Johnson M,Wright A,Zhou L,Wang SV

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 'Erice Call for Change' is a report from a group of experts, patients and patient representatives who met in Erice in September 2019 following previous similar meetings after the original Erice Declaration (1996). The aim of the meeting was to discuss the challenge of causal complexity and individual variation in...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Rocca E,Anjum RL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Simoons M,Seldenrijk A,Mulder H,van Roon E,Bakker R,Ruhé H

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Case reports have related the use of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors ('statins') to Parkinson's disease (PD). Paradoxically, however, statins may have potentially beneficial effects on neurodegenerative diseases due to their anti-inflammatory properties. OBJECTIVE:To explore the risk of the development of PD i...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Becker C,Jick SS,Meier CR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An association between oral contraceptive (OC) use and venous thromboembolism (VTE) has long been recognized. However, no summary estimates of the increase in VTE risk associated with OC use have been available since 1995, and no meta-analyses have evaluated the VTE risk of new preparations containing drospi...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Manzoli L,De Vito C,Marzuillo C,Boccia A,Villari P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can cause serious health problems, as shown in studies about drug-related hospitalizations. To build knowledge of and raise awareness about ADRs among healthcare professionals, more education in the field of ADRs and pharmacovigilance (PV) is needed. No standard exists for teaching PV at ...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： van Eekeren R,Rolfes L,Koster AS,Magro L,Parthasarathi G,Al Ramimmy H,Schutte T,Tanaka D,van Puijenbroek E,Härmark L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are now commonly used in the treatment of many conditions, especially cancer, haematological malignancies and chronic viral hepatitis. With some of these cytokines, clinical induction and/or exacerbation of autoimmune manifestations have been observed. This has been the case with interferon-alpha and interfe...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Miossec P

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WHO World Alliance on Patient Safety is a new, all encompassing project to improve medical care. Individual patients are the focus and all countries are encouraged to develop systems in which medical error, therapeutic accidents and failures are minimised. The potential for adverse events is present at all levels ...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Edwards IR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is fundamental to drug safety surveillance (pharmacovigilance); however, substantial under-reporting exists and is the main limitation of the system. Several factors could favour under-reporting. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this pilot study was to assess the e...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Gony M,Badie K,Sommet A,Jacquot J,Baudrin D,Gauthier P,Montastruc JL,Bagheri H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of the interferons in the 1990s, a multitude of different immunomodulatory and immunosuppressant disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis (MS) have been developed. They have all shown positive effects on clinical endpoints such as relapse rate and disease progression and are a heteroge...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Förster M,Küry P,Aktas O,Warnke C,Havla J,Hohlfeld R,Mares J,Hartung HP,Kremer D

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Adverse drug events (ADEs) may represent an important item of expenditure for healthcare systems and their prevention could be associated with a relevant cost saving. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to simulate the annual economic burden for ADEs in Tuscany (Italy) and the potential cost savings...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Convertino I,Salvadori S,Pecori A,Galiulo MT,Ferraro S,Parrilli M,Corona T,Turchetti G,Blandizzi C,Tuccori M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thallium poisoning seldom occurs in Spain. This article reports 5 cases of thallium poisoning, of which 4 of the patients belonged to the same family. The cases occurred in or near Granada between 1985 and 1987. The symptoms were initially gastrointestinal (vomiting, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, etc.)...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Villanueva E,Hernandez-Cueto C,Lachica E,Rodrigo MD,Ramos V

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol (2, 6-diisopropylphenol) is a potent intravenous hypnotic agent that is widely used in adults and children for sedation and the induction and maintenance of anaesthesia. Propofol has gained popularity for its rapid onset and rapid recovery even after prolonged use, and for the neuroprotection conferred. Howev...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Fodale V,La Monaca E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older people in the UK receive a disproportionate amount of medication. They comprise 18% of the population but receive 45% of all prescription items. Not surprisingly they experience drug-related illnesses - in 1980, 1 in 10 admissions to acute geriatric units were wholly or partly due to adverse drug reactions. Drug...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Denham MJ,Barnett NL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Bradford Hill criteria are a widely used, useful tool for the assessment of biomedical causation. We have examined their application to pharmacovigilance using the example of cisapride-induced QTc interval prolongation/arrhythmia. METHODS:A literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, EMBASE, Reacti...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Perrio M,Voss S,Shakir SA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the US, adverse drug reactions (ADRs) rank between the fourth to sixth leading cause of death, ahead of pneumonia and diabetes mellitus. An important reason for the high incidence of serious and fatal ADRs is that the existing drug development paradigms do not generate adequate information on the mechanistic source...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Ozdemir V,Shear NH,Kalow W

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Problematic prescription drug use is reflected by or associated with drug-seeking aberrant behaviours. Research gaps include lack of post-marketing evidence and instruments. As part of the pharmacovigilance requirements, a risk management plan was developed for fentanyl buccal tablets (FEBT) by the manufactu...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Layton D,Osborne V,Al-Shukri M,Shakir SA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risks and adverse effects of the low dose, new generation progestogen combined oral contraceptives (COCs) are much lower than original studies involving pills containing 50 micrograms estrogen. The main effects are those on the cardiovascular system, lipid and glucose metabolism and cancer. Any effect of the COC o...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Bagshaw S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boxed warnings-also known as "black box" warnings-can be a powerful tool in communicating drug risks to physicians and patients. The overall number of boxed warnings has grown in recent years as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved more drugs on the basis of limited pre-marketing information and as n...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Yeh JS,Sarpatwari A,Kesselheim AS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, the selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) currently indicated for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer, i.e. tamoxifen and toremifene, are fairly well tolerated. However, tamoxifen has been shown to induce hepatocellular carcinomas in rats, but not in humans, and can increase the risk of ...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Curtis MG

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At time of approval, knowledge of the full benefit risk of any drug is limited, in particular with regards to safety. Post-approval surveillance of potential drug safety concerns is recognized as an important task of regulatory agencies. For innovative, often first-in-class drugs, safety knowledge at time of...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Mol PG,Arnardottir AH,Motola D,Vrijlandt PJ,Duijnhoven RG,Haaijer-Ruskamp FM,de Graeff PA,Denig P,Straus SM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphosphonates are the primary pharmacological agents used for the management of osteoporosis and hypercalcaemia of malignant bone disease. The efficacy of these agents in these two conditions has been demonstrated in many well designed trials published over the past 2 decades. The variety of bisphosphonates currentl...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Bobba RS,Beattie K,Parkinson B,Kumbhare D,Adachi JD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaemia is common in patients with haematological malignancy, occurring in the majority of patients with malignant disease who are treated with chemotherapy. Most patients will have their anaemia attributed to the cytokine-mediated anaemia of chronic disease. Many of these patients with anaemia will be symptomatic wit...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Littlewood TJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence from animal studies has raised the possibility that immunisation by vaccines can influence the pathogenesis of type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. In non-obese diabetic mice and biobreeding rats, complete Freund's adjuvant and bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine have successfully been used...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Hiltunen M,Lönnrot M,Hyöty H

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important role for the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring is to identify signals of international drug safety problems as early as possible. Since 1998, Bayesian Confidence Propagation Neural Network (BCPNN) data mining has been in routine use for screening of the WHO adverse reaction database, Vigibas...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Lindquist M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically increased the lifespan of HIV patients but treatment is complicated by numerous adverse effects and toxicities. ART complications include neuropsychiatric, metabolic, gastrointestinal, cardiac, and numerous other toxicities, and clinicians often have to ...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Treisman GJ,Soudry O

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over-the-counter analgesics (OTCAs), principally paracetamol (acetaminophen)-containing compounds and NSAIDs, are commonly used medications. Guidelines for the use of these agents in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) are not available, despite the possibility that such patients may be more susceptibl...

journal_title：Drug safety

authors： Rossi S,Assis DN,Awsare M,Brunner M,Skole K,Rai J,Andrel J,Herrine SK,Reddy RK,Navarro VJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00