Potential bias in pharmacoepidemiological studies due to the length of the drug free period: a study on antidepressant drug use in adults in the Netherlands.

abstract：PURPOSE:Some studies have reported reduced risks of advanced, but not early, prostate cancer among statin users, and one study found a reduced risk only among statin users who had also used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). We have previously reported no association between statin use and prostate cancer ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Coogan PF,Kelly JP,Strom BL,Rosenberg L

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of first-generation antipsychotics (FGA) prescribed for treatment of psychiatric and neurological conditions and use of benztropine to reduce extrapyramidal side effects (EPS) by patient race/ethnicity in a nationally representative sample of adult outpatient...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Cook TB,Reeves GM,Teufel J,Postolache TT

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Identify if publication of the 2010 drug safety communication (DSC) regarding benzonatate was associated with a decrease in the incidence of severe benzonatate poisonings reported to United States poison centers. METHODS:This retrospective database study utilized the National Poison Data System to compare the ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Leonard JB,Seung H,Klein-Schwartz W

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies (EUROCAT) is a network of population-based congenital anomaly registries in Europe surveying more than 1 million births per year, or 25% of the births in the European Union. This paper describes the potential of the EUROCAT collaboration for pharmacoepidemiology ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Meijer WM,Cornel MC,Dolk H,de Walle HE,Armstrong NC,de Jong-van den Berg LT,EUROCAT Working Group.

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our study addresses how the information in the labels differed between United States (US) and Japan, what factors were associated with the decision to place the boxed warning on the label, and the relation of both countries in terms of drug label policy. METHODS:We investigated adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Jayaputra K,Ono S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and test an algorithm that translates total dose and daily regimen, inputted as 'free text' on a prescription, into numerical values to calculate the prescribed treatment duration. METHOD:The algorithm was developed using antibiotic prescriptions (n = 711,714) from multiple primary care computer sys...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Brooks CJ,Lyons RA,Jones KH,Hutton AJ,Walker R,Evans KA,Lloyd K,Ford DV

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of potential drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in hospitalised patients in correlation with patient's age and number of drugs prescribed and to determine the prevalence of inappropriate drugs prescribed to elderly patients. METHODS:Drugs prescribed during ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Radosević N,Gantumur M,Vlahović-Palcevski V

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity and completeness of the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) as a tool for research into inflammatory bowel disease epidemiology. METHODS:Patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease were identified from GPRD. Mailed surveys were sent to the g...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Lewis JD,Brensinger C,Bilker WB,Strom BL

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse drug reaction surveillance conducted by the US Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is important for detecting new safety information about pharmaceuticals. FDA has sought to stimulate reporting of reactions by practitioners and manufacturers. Over the five years from 1989 to 1993, reporting more than do...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Faich GA

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Observational pharmacoepidemiological studies can provide valuable information on the effectiveness or safety of interventions in the real world, but one major challenge is the existence of unmeasured confounder(s). While many analytical methods have been developed for dealing with this challenge, they appear u...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Zhang X,Faries DE,Li H,Stamey JD,Imbens GW

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the effectiveness of quality circles on prescribing patterns of primary care physicians in Germany and to explore the influence of specific factors on changes. METHODS:Three large non-randomised comparative studies were performed in primary care in Germany, with baseline measurements in 2001 and f...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Wensing M,Broge B,Riens B,Kaufmann-Kolle P,Akkermans R,Grol R,Szecsenyi J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evidence is growing that early use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and combinations of these drugs provide optimal care for people with rheumatoid arthirits. The aim of this study was to describe objectively the pattern of consumption of DMARDs in the Australian community (community-based pre...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Chan V,Tett SE

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the validity of pregnancy variables recorded in administrative databases of Quebec using patient medical charts as the gold standard among asthmatic pregnant women. METHODS:Three administrative databases were linked and provided information on maternal, pregnancy and infant characteristics for 726...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Vilain A,Otis S,Forget A,Blais L

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following approval in the EU in 2002 and the USA in 2003, an Intensive Safety Surveillance Scheme (IS(3) ) was initiated to educate prescribers on the appropriate use of miglustat for the treatment of type I Gaucher disease (GD1), and to actively solicit safety-relevant information. This report summarises da...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Brand M,Muller A,Alsop J,van Schaik IN,Bembi B,Hughes D

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to examine trends in potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) prescribing in Norwegian nursing homes. METHODS:Patients aged ≥70 years were included from three cross-sectional studies conducted in 1997, 2005 and 2011. PIMs were analyzed according to the Norwegian General Practice-Nur...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Halvorsen KH,Selbaek G,Ruths S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-grade cervical dysplasia or cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or worse has been widely used as a surrogate endpoint in cervical cancer screening or prevention trials. METHODS:To identify high-grade cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer, we developed claims-based algorithms that incorporated a...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Kim SC,Gillet VG,Feldman S,Lii H,Toh S,Brown JS,Katz JN,Solomon DH,Schneeweiss S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our study aimed to investigate the association between prenatal exposure to reactive intermediate (RI)-inducing drugs and the initiation of psychotropic medications among children. METHODS:We designed a cohort study using a pharmacy prescription database. Pregnant women were considered exposed when they receiv...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Tran YH,Groen H,Bergman JE,Hak E,Wilffert B

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine whether patient focused drug surveillance was associated with a higher quality of drug treatment at nursing homes. METHODS:An intervention study in four nursing homes in Sweden and four other nursing homes served as controls. At the intervention nursing homes physicians focused on patients' health s...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Olsson IN,Curman B,Engfeldt P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Residual confounding is a potential limitation of pharmacoepidemiologic studies, and in particular, studies based on administrative claims data that do not capture lifestyle and clinical confounders. We describe an application of the case-cohort design to assess residual confounding by thromboembolic risk facto...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Eng PM,Seeger JD,Loughlin J,Clifford CR,Mentor S,Walker AM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a prevalent and important outcome and covariate in pharmacoepidemiology. The Health Improvement Network (THIN) in the UK represents a unique resource for population-based studies of CKD. We compiled a valid list of Read codes to identify subjects with moderate to advanced CKD. M...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Denburg MR,Haynes K,Shults J,Lewis JD,Leonard MB

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The General Practice Research Database (GPRD) is a database of longitudinal patient records from general practices in the United Kingdom. It is an important data source for pharmacoepidemiology studies, but until now it has been tedious to calculate the daily dose and duration of exposure to drugs prescribed. T...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Shah AD,Martinez C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the utility of electronic health records from a routine care setting in assessing comparative effectiveness of fourth-line anti-hypertensive drugs to treat resistant hypertension. METHODS:We conducted a cohort study using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink: a repository of electronic health rec...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Sinnott SJ,Smeeth L,Williamson E,Perel P,Nitsch D,Tomlinson LA,Douglas IJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Few recent U.S. studies have examined population-based patterns in prescription drug use and even fewer have considered detailed patterns by race/ethnicity. In a representative community sample, our objectives were to determine the most commonly used prescription drug classes, and to describe their use by age, ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Hall SA,Chiu GR,Kaufman DW,Kelly JP,Link CL,Kupelian V,McKinlay JB

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES:To describe the kind of the difficulties encountered when seeking research governance approval for a nationwide public health and genetic study-the Drug-Induced Arrhythmia Risk Evaluation study-in England. METHODS:Description of the processes followed when seeking research governance approval for the Drug-Ind...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Boshier A,Shakir SA,Telfer P,Behr E,Pakrashi T,Camm AJ

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To measure changes in drug utilisation following a national general practice education program aimed at improving prescribing for hypertension. METHODS:A series of nationally implemented, multifaceted educational interventions using social marketing principles focusing on prescribing for hypertension, was comm...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Horn FE,Mandryk JA,Mackson JM,Wutzke SE,Weekes LM,Hyndman RJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ejection fraction (EF) is crucial information when studying the use and effectiveness of therapies in patients with heart failure (HF) and myocardial infarction (MI). We aimed to assess the validity of claims data-based definitions of systolic dysfunction (SD). METHODS:We identified 1072 patients with EF recor...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Li Q,Glynn RJ,Dreyer NA,Liu J,Mogun H,Setoguchi S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the extent, characteristics and determinants of adverse drug reaction (ADR)-related hospitalisations on a population-based level in 2003. METHODS:We performed a cohort study in the Integrated Primary Care Information (IPCI) database, a general practitioners (GPs) research database with longitudinal...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： van der Hooft CS,Dieleman JP,Siemes C,Aarnoudse AJ,Verhamme KM,Stricker BH,Sturkenboom MC

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to quantify the extent of over-the-counter (OTC) low-dose aspirin use among patients in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) in the UK. METHODS:In September 2013, a random sample of low-dose aspirin users (75 past users and 75 never users) was identified based on prescriptions recorded in THIN. Prima...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Cea Soriano L,Soriano-Gabarró M,García Rodríguez LA

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the impact of 2 policy changes on quetiapine dispensing in Australia: removal of prior authorisation for prescribing (policy 1: July 2007) and removal of repeat prescriptions for 25-mg quetiapine (policy 2: January 2014). METHODS:We performed an interrupted time series analysis using Pharmaceutical...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Brett J,Schaffer A,Dobbins T,Buckley NA,Pearson SA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate a possible increased risk of esophageal obstruction among users of loratadine and pseudoephedrine (Claritin-D 24-Hour [C-D 24], the original, round, extended-release formulation) compared to two other tablet formulations of loratadine. METHODS:Pharmacy data of 12 managed care plans were screened...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Manda B,Drinkard CR,Shatin D,Graham DJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00