Tramadol dependence: a survey of spontaneously reported cases in Sweden.

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was to quantify rates of adverse events in a high-risk multi-morbid population of institutionalized patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort study among nursing home residents diagnosed with AD and psychosis during January 1998 to October 1...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Oliveria SA,Liperoti R,L'italien G,Pugner K,Safferman A,Carson W,Lapane K

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：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：PURPOSE:Three recent observational studies reported that the risk of fatal overdose is greater with venlafaxine than SSRI use. It is not clear whether patient factors could account for this finding. We evaluated whether risk factors for suicide are more prevalent among patients prescribed venlafaxine than patients pres...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Mines D,Hill D,Yu H,Novelli L

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：PURPOSES:(1) Measure the prevalence of herbal product (HP) use, alone, and concomitantly with prescribed medications during pregnancy, (2) identify the most frequently consumed HP during gestation and (3) determine predictors of HP use at the beginning of pregnancy, and during the third trimester. METHODS:A questionna...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Moussally K,Oraichi D,Bérard A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate pattern and extent of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with AEDs and to identify safer options for treatment of epilepsy. METHOD:Study was a retrospective, cross-sectional survey. Data from patients with epilepsy at the out-patient and in-patient of Neurology Department was collected in ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： S RB,Narayan SS,Sharma GR,Rodrigues RJ,Kulkarni C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study is to characterise how Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is treated in England and Wales and whether this adheres to 2009 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance on management of T2DM. METHODS:Data for T2DM patients aged 18+ years prescribed at least one anti-d...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Datta-Nemdharry P,Thomson A,Beynon J,Donegan K

更新日期：2017-02-01 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:To assess the validity of dispensed prescription to classify exposure to medications used episodically during pregnancy, and to explore individual trajectories of episodic medication use across pregnancy, using triptans for migraine as the motivating example. METHODS:We compared self-reported triptan use durin...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Harris GE,Wood M,Nordeng H

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The study aimed to evaluate the comparative risk of oral ulcerations among antipsychotic medications. METHODS:We analyzed the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan and included patients newly initiated with a single antipsychotic agent including haloperidol, sulpiride, olanzapine, quetiapine, r...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Lai EC,Hsieh CY,Wong MB,Lin SJ,Yang YK,Kao Yang YH,Setoguchi S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Poor adherence and persistence to blood pressure lowering (BPL) agents leads to increased risk of morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to investigate the long-term adherence, persistence, and re-initiation of BPL agents among older Australians (aged ≥65 years). METHODS:We utilised the Pharmaceuti...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Si S,Ofori-Asenso R,Briffa T,Sanfilippo FM,Ilomaki J,Qin X,Tacey M,Reid CM,Liew D

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Community Pharmacists both have an important responsibility in monitoring the ongoing safety of medicines and are widely accessible to do it. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, perceptions and practice of Pharmacovigilance amongst community pharmacists in Lagos State, South West Nigeria METHODS:A cr...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Oreagba IA,Ogunleye OJ,Olayemi SO

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The UK Drug Utilization Research Group's (DURG) Regional Meeting 'New Horizons: Pharmacovigilance' was hosted by the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) at Southampton on 19 May 2000. Opening the meeting, Dr Keith Beard, UK DURG chairman, welcomed delegates and speakers and thanked the DSRU team for hosting the meeting. ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Barnes J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the internet way of feedback to prescribing physicians, providing data on antimicrobial use and to assess the applicability of the DU90% (i.e. Drug Utilisation 90%--the number of drugs accounting for 90% of the volume of usage in defined daily doses, (DDDs)) methodology in the hospital setting. MET...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Bergman U,Risinggård H,Vlahović-Palcevski V,Ericsson O

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Triptan medications are serotonin agonists used to treat migraine, a chronic pain condition highly prevalent in women of reproductive age. Data on the safety of triptans during pregnancy are scant. We sought to quantify the association of prenatal triptan exposure on neurodevelopment in 3-year-old children. ME...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Wood ME,Frazier JA,Nordeng HM,Lapane KL

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study aimed to validate a predefined algorithm for osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) among cancer patients in the Danish National Registry of Patients and to assess the nature of clinical information recorded in medical charts of ONJ patients. METHODS:We identified potential ONJ cases recorded in 2005-2010 a...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Ehrenstein V,Gammelager H,Schiødt M,Nørholt SE,Neumann-Jensen B,Folkmar TB,Pedersen L,Svaerke C,Sørensen HT,Ma H,Acquavella J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSES:The aim of the pharmacovigilance (PV) process is to bring together all the much-needed information about various aspects of product safety or, in particular, the safety and vigilance of drugs as pharmaceutical products. This study aimed to investigate and provide an overview on the current situation and activi...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Alshammari TM,Alenzi KA,Ata SI

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We use simulations and an empirical example to evaluate the performance of disease risk score (DRS) matching compared with propensity score (PS) matching when controlling large numbers of covariates in settings involving newly introduced treatments. METHODS:We simulated a dichotomous treatment, a dichotomous o...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Wyss R,Ellis AR,Brookhart MA,Jonsson Funk M,Girman CJ,Simpson RJ Jr,Stürmer T

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hydroxyzine is indicated for the management of anxiety, skin and sleep disorders. In 2015, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded that hydroxyzine was pro-arrhythmogenic and changes to the product information were implemented in Europe. This study aimed to evaluate their impact in Denmark, Scotland, E...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Morales DR,Macfarlane T,MacDonald TM,Hallas J,Ernst MT,Herings RMC,Smits E,Overbeek JA,Mitchell L,Morant S,Mackenzie I,Doney ASF,Robertson C,Bennie M,Wei L,Nicholson L,Morris C,Flynn RWF

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is one of the primary targets for pharmacovigilance using medical information databases (MIDs). Because of diagnostic complexity, a standardized method for identifying DILI using MIDs has not yet been established. We applied the Digestive Disease Week Japan 2004 (DDW-J) scale, a...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Hanatani T,Sai K,Tohkin M,Segawa K,Kimura M,Hori K,Kawakami J,Saito Y

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine patterns of United Arab Emirates (UAE) citizen herbal medicine taking. METHODS:Questionnaire survey of UAE citizens attending a primary healthcare clinic in Abu Dhabi. RESULTS:Three hundred and thirty surveys were analysed. Seventy-six per cent (250/330) had previously used herbal products, and o...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： AlBraik FA,Rutter PM,Brown D

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the effects of analgesics on bone mineral density (BMD), which have not been examined in a longitudinal study with multiple measurements. METHODS:We investigated changes in BMD associated with new use of analgesics in a prospective longitudinal cohort of mid-life women. BMD and medication use were m...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Yoshida K,Yu Z,Greendale GA,Ruppert K,Lian Y,Tedeschi SK,Lin TC,Haneuse S,Glynn RJ,Hernández-Díaz S,Solomon DH

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Pentaerythrityl tetranitrate (PETN) was the most commonly prescribed long-acting nitrate in Germany. We aimed to assess whether the discontinuation of PETN reimbursability in 2011 resulted in alternative prescriptions of anti-anginal medications or in a discontinuation of anti-anginal therapy. METHODS:This is ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Grimmsmann T,Chenot JF,Angelow A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Granular clinical and laboratory data available in electronic health record (EHR) databases provide researchers the opportunity to conduct investigations that would not be possible in insurance claims databases; however, for pharmacoepidemiology studies, accurate classification of medication exposure is crit...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Rowan CG,Flory J,Gerhard T,Cuddeback JK,Stempniewicz N,Lewis JD,Hennessy S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite numerous clinical guidelines on asthma management, patients often receive suboptimal drug therapy. This study identified patients who received suboptimal regimens according to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in a complete popu...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Zhang T,Smith MA,Camp PG,Carleton BC

更新日期：2013-07-01 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:To determine the prevalence of purchase of prescribed antihypertensive and/or serum lipid-reducing pharmaceutical preparations among different age groups, from the age of 45, in the Swedish population. Further, to calculate the percentage of the population, from the age of 60, who purchased these pharmaceutical...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Silwer L,Lundborg CS,Petzold M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current methods for prospective drug safety monitoring focus on determining whether and when to generate safety alerts indicating that a new drug may be less safe than a comparator. Approaches are needed to develop safety thresholds that can be used to define whether a new drug is no less than or equally saf...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Wangge G,Schneeweiss S,Glynn RJ,Gagne JJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 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