Methods for evaluation of medication adherence and persistence using automated databases.

abstract：PURPOSE:Administration of pegylated interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) and ribavirin in adults with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is a recommended therapeutic standard. Nevertheless, this therapeutic regimen rises numerous controversies. The aim of this study was to analyze adverse effects during the treatment with pegylated IFN...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Kowala-Piaskowska A,Mozer-Lisewska I,Figlerowicz M,Słuzewski W

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Long-term benzodiazepine (BZD) treatment continues to be a debated topic. Because individual BZDs have different clinical profiles, we assessed the nationwide trends of long-term BZD use at active substance level during years 2006 to 2014. METHODS:This study covered all reimbursed BZD purchases (n = 408 572-52...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Kurko T,Saastamoinen LK,Tuulio-Henriksson A,Taiminen T,Tiihonen J,Airaksinen M,Hietala J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Longitudinal data on prescriptions of antidepressants (AD) in children and adolescents depression are scarce. This study aimed to examine AD prescription trends in children and adolescents in Germany. METHODS:Data of a large statutory health insurance company were analyzed for the period 2005-2012, and outpati...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Hoffmann F,Glaeske G,Bachmann CJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 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:Following safety concerns regarding trimetazidine, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended restrictions on its use. Our objective was to determine the impact of regulatory actions on trimetazidine utilization in Portugal. METHODS:Retrospective interrupted time-series analysis of monthly ambulatory phar...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Pinto D,Silva A,Heleno B,Rodrigues DS,Santos I,Caetano PA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Generic substitution (GS) is an important way to decrease medical costs. We aimed to study the opinions and attitudes of Finnish people about GS five years after it was introduced, the reasons for substituting and what people think about generic medicines. METHODS:We sent a postal survey to a random stratified...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Heikkilä R,Mäntyselkä P,Ahonen R

更新日期：2011-02-01 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 develop a method for data-driven exploration in pharmacovigilance and illustrate its use by identifying the key features of individual case safety reports related to medication errors. METHODS:We propose vigiPoint, a method that contrasts the relative frequency of covariate values in a data subset of intere...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Juhlin K,Star K,Norén GN

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Research using healthcare databases often includes patients frequently excluded from clinical trials; yet it is not known whether commonly used data represents the overall population or specific sub-populations of interest. We aimed to examine population representativeness from data sources in recent research s...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Kaviani P,Landi SN,McKethan A,Brookhart MA,McGrath LJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adverse drug events (ADEs) are an important cause of preventable hospitalizations among elderly individuals taking high-risk medications. The objective of the study was to identify health care system factors that affect the risk of digoxin toxicity for older adults on digoxin. METHODS:We conducted a prospectiv...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Haynes K,Hennessy S,Localio AR,Cohen A,Leonard CE,Kimmel SE,Feldman HI,Strom BL,Metlay JP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the extent, characteristics and determinants of benzodiazepine prescription in outpatient Primary Health Care. METHODS:A clinical audit of a stratified random sample of Primary Health Care Centres in the seven islands and 1.6 million inhabitants region of 'Canarias' in Spain was carried out. From t...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： de las Cuevas C,Sanz E,de la Fuente JA,Cabrera C,Mateos A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Outcome misclassification may occur in observational studies using administrative databases. We evaluated a two-step multiple imputation approach based on complementary internal validation data obtained from two subsamples of study participants to reduce bias in hazard ratio (HR) estimates in Cox regressions....

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Ni J,Leong A,Dasgupta K,Rahme E

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We developed an adverse events (AEs) reporting form for Korean folk medicine. METHODS:The first version of the form was developed and tested in the clinical setting for spontaneous reporting of AEs. Additional revisions to the reporting form were made based on collected data and expert input. RESULTS:We devel...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Park JH,Choi SM,Moon S,Kim S,Kim B,Kim MK,Lee S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth in health information systems presents opportunities to enhance postmarketing safety surveillance of medical products. Spontaneous suspected side effect reports provide the foundation, but we need to 'proactively' improve their quality and our strategies to seek signals. In our more familiar 'reactive' mode, we...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Bortnichak EA,Wise RP,Salive ME,Tilson HH

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the prevalence of drug consumption and the impact of workplace demands and burdens for substance use, we conducted a survey in a representative sample of Tyrolean employees. METHODS:This analysis was restricted to the 700 respondents (395 male, 305 female; age 18-60 years) in the year 2001 by t...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Traweger C,Kinzl JF,Traweger-Ravanelli B,Fiala M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose - The objective of this study was an evaluation of the sensitivity of findings of the relationship between oral corticosteroid use and the risk of fracture. We found in earlier work that the risk of fracture was significantly higher during oral corticosteroid treatment, with increases of 61% in hip and 160% in...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Van Staa TP,Abenhaim L,Cooper C,Zhang B,Leufkens HG

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) may suppress adrenal cortical steroid synthesis and release, thereby leading to electrolyte disturbances. Both hyponatremia and hyperkalemia in the setting of PPI therapy have been documented in case reports. The objective of this study was to examine the association between serum po...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Gau JT,Heh V,Acharya U,Yang YX,Kao TC

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) among older adults admitted to acute care hospitals and to examine the consistency of this effect across gender and age groups. METHODS:We used the GIFA (Italian Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly) database, which i...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Onder G,Landi F,Della Vedova C,Atkinson H,Pedone C,Cesari M,Bernabei R,Gambassi G,GIFA Study.

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the occurrence of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and associated risk factors in a pediatric hospital in northeast Brazil, from August to December 2001. SUBJECTS/SETTING:Two hundred seventy two patients hospitalized for more than 24 hours. METHODS:Prospective cohort study. Daily visits were perfo...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： dos Santos DB,Coelho HL

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a method for identifying the beginning and ending records of pregnancies in the automated medical records of the General Practice Research Database (GPRD). METHODS:Women's records from 1991 to 1999 were searched for codes from 17 pregnancy marker and 7 pregnancy outcome categories. Using the retriev...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Hardy JR,Holford TR,Hall GC,Bracken MB

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objectives of this study were to characterize the validity of algorithms to identify AF from electronic health data through a systematic review of the literature and to identify gaps needing further research. METHODS:Two reviewers examined publications during 1997-2008 that identified patients with atrial ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Jensen PN,Johnson K,Floyd J,Heckbert SR,Carnahan R,Dublin S

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Poor-quality patient drug information has been identified as a major cause of preventable medication errors in the United States. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to require marketing authorization holders of medicinal products to implement risk evaluation and mitigation strategies...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Chan HW,Russell AM,Smith MY

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe a bias that can occur in the analysis of data from certain randomized trials. METHODS AND RESULTS:Although randomized trials are effective at preventing confounding, a potentially strong confounding can arise in certain therapeutic drug trials in which follow-up is extended in an open-label phase t...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Rothman KJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the frequency of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) recorded by doctors with perceived ADRs reported by patients during hospitalization and post-discharge and to compare both to formal reporting in Thailand. SETTING:Tertiary teaching hospital, North-East Thailand. METHODS:Over a 6-month period doctors w...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Jarernsiripornkul N,Kakaew W,Loalukkana W,Krska J

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There is an increasing number of children with in utero exposure to opioids. Knowledge about opioid safety in pregnancy, particularly for outcomes later in childhood is scarce. It has been suggested that opioids can modulate immune system and increase the risk of infections. Our goal was to study the impact of ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Mahic M,Hernandez-Diaz S,Wood M,Kieler H,Odsbu I,Nørgaard M,Öztürk B,Bateman BT,Hjellvik V,Skurtveit S,Handal M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the length of the drug free period on incidence measurements as well as on cohort characteristics in users of antidepressants. METHODS:The study population consisted of patients aged 18 years or older who filled a prescription for an antidepressant drug in th...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Gardarsdottir H,Heerdink ER,Egberts AC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosiglitazone has previously been widely used to treat patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, but its safety in terms of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality had been called into question. Recently, there have been doubts raised about the meta-analytic evidence with the regulatory authorities relaxing its restricti...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Stone JC,Furuya-Kanamori L,Barendregt JJ,Doi SA

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recent public health safety issues involving medical devices have led to a growing demand to improve the current passive-reactive postmarket surveillance (PMS) system. Various European Union (EU) national competent authorities have started to focus on strengthening the postmarket risk evaluation. As a consequen...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Pane J,Francisca RDC,Verhamme KMC,Orozco M,Viroux H,Rebollo I,Sturkenboom MCJM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cost of drugs represents 10% of the National Health Service (NHS) budget in the UK and this fraction is increasing. Because the NHS is centrally funded and because there is a budgetary limit, prioritization in health care is required. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence in England and Wales and the Heal...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Beard K

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00