Increase in the duration of antidepressant treatment from 1994 to 2003: a nationwide population-based study from Finland.

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: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：BACKGROUND:Recent evidence suggested that oral form of domperidone may possess pro-arrhythmic effects and increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmia. The concomitant use of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A4 isoenzyme inhibitors may further potentiate this association. Nevertheless, empirical data supporting these associations...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Chen HL,Hsiao FY

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Discontinuing low-dose acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) therapy after upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) may increase the risk of cardiovascular-related death. Our aim was to compare mortality in UK primary care patients who discontinue ASA after UGIB with that in patients who continue therapy. METHODS:ASA users...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： González-Pérez A,Sáez ME,Johansson S,Nagy P,García Rodríguez LA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Confounding, a concern in nonexperimental research using administrative claims, is nearly ubiquitous in claims-based pharmacoepidemiology studies. A fixed-length look-back window for assessing comorbidity from claims is common, but it may be advantageous to use all historical claims. We assessed how the strengt...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Gilbertson DT,Bradbury BD,Wetmore JB,Weinhandl ED,Monda KL,Liu J,Brookhart MA,Gustafson SK,Roberts T,Collins AJ,Rothman KJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to manage risk depends critically on an understanding of the degree to which a known risk is balanced by the probability of a clinical benefit. Despite the massive emphasis on risk and risk management in the past few years and the long-term focus on defining benefit in the regulatory system, considerable u...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Califf RM,CERTs Benefit Assessment Workshop Participants.

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To learn the evolution of antidepressant and lithium use in Castilla y León (Central Spain) and its relationship with suicide rates. METHODS:A search in the ECOM (Especialidades Consumo de Medicamentos) database of the Spanish Ministry of Health for antidepressants and lithium was carried out for the period ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Arias LH,Lobato CT,Ortega S,Velasco A,Carvajal A,del Pozo JG

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Stimulant medications used for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be associated with an increased risk of seizures. Atomoxetine is a non-stimulant medication approved for treating ADHD. This retrospective cohort analysis evaluated risk of seizures among pediatric patients naïve to ADHD...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： McAfee AT,Landon J,Jones M,Bangs ME,Acharya N,Hornbuckle K,Wong J

更新日期：2013-04-01 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:Risk assessment for natural health products (NHPs) may not be evaluated similarly to therapeutic products by Health Canada in terms of notification of harms to consumers and health professionals. In this descriptive study, we evaluated risk communications (RCs) issued by Health Canada for NHPs and for therapeut...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Bateman J,Charrois TL,Gardiner P,Vohra S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The role of administrative databases for research on drug safety during pregnancy can be limited by their inaccurate assessment of the timing of exposure, as the gestational age at birth is typically unavailable. Therefore, we sought to develop and validate algorithms to estimate the gestational age at birth us...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Margulis AV,Setoguchi S,Mittleman MA,Glynn RJ,Dormuth CR,Hernández-Díaz S

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Postmarketing drug safety surveillance relies upon measures of disproportionate reporting in spontaneous reporting systems. It has been hypothesized that products or events reported frequently may "mask" signals. METHODS:We analyzed the masking effect of vaccines in pediatrics in the EudraVigilance database by...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Dodd C,Pacurariu A,Osokogu OU,Weibel D,Ferrajolo C,Vo DH,Becker B,Kors JA,Sturkenboom M

更新日期：2018-11-01 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:In post-marketing drug safety surveillance, data mining can potentially detect rare but serious adverse events. Assessing an entire collection of drug-event pairs is traditionally performed on a predefined level of granularity. It is unknown a priori whether a drug causes a very specific or a set of related adv...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Kulldorff M,Dashevsky I,Avery TR,Chan AK,Davis RL,Graham D,Platt R,Andrade SE,Boudreau D,Gunter MJ,Herrinton LJ,Pawloski PA,Raebel MA,Roblin D,Brown JS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Clinical trials of olmesartan for prevention of progression of renal disease in patients with diabetes showed renal protection but an unexpected imbalance in cardiac deaths. The US Food and Drug Administration requested from the manufacturer a cohort study of olmesartan, other angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARB...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Walker AM,Liang C,Clifford CR,Parker C,Feldman A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Economic factors, market dynamics, and safety issues are largely responsible for decisions to withdraw pharmaceutical products from the market. In this study, new molecular entities (NMEs) approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were examined in the USA from 1980 to 2009. METHODS:Data were obtained ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Qureshi ZP,Seoane-Vazquez E,Rodriguez-Monguio R,Stevenson KB,Szeinbach SL

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Meta-analysis is a quantitative approach to summarize the findings from several studies and has been applied with increasing frequency to clinical trials. Because of their sample size and duration limitations, experimental studies (ESs) could not be able to detect late or rare adverse events (AEs), which may be...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Alves C,Batel-Marques F,Macedo AF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Early detection of risky behaviors involving prescription opioids can assist prescribers in implementing safer prescribing. Patient-to-prescriber travel patterns may indicate potential opioid misuse. We introduce doctor hopping, patients bypassing nearby prescribers in favor of more distant ones, as a new spati...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Young SG,Hayes CJ,Aram J,Tait MA

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Determination of the incidence rate of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is urgent, in response to the safety issue with use of the glucose lowering drugs, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors, and DKA. METHODS:We extracted data of adult patients with T2DM from a medical claim...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Takeuchi M,Kawamura T,Sato I,Kawakami K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current medical care environment has created expectations that exceed its capabilities, one effect of which has been an increasing awareness of lapses in the quality of healthcare, including medical errors. As more new therapies reach clinical application, the expectations on the part of the public are unlikely to...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Califf RM

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To estimate 1-year prevalence, 1-year incidence and indication of use of antidepressant (AD) drug treatment in general practice of Southern Italy during the years 2003-2004. METHODS:Among 142,346 individuals registered in the lists of 119 general practitioners of Southern Italy, we identified users of differen...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Trifirò G,Barbui C,Spina E,Moretti S,Tari M,Alacqua M,Caputi AP,UVEC group.,Arcoraci V

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythromycin is commonly used to treat simple community-acquired pneumonia. We measured the prolongation in QT(c) intervals in EKGs associated with intravenous erythromycin administration among patients hospitalized for simple pneumonia (DRGs 89 and 90). We reviewed the medical records of 50 patients who received at l...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Freeman J,Platt R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Leukotriene receptor antagonists are used in asthma and rhinitis treatment. Pharmacovigilance data have suggested an association between montelukast and depression, but the association has not been established in controlled study designs. We described the association between initiation of montelukast and depres...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Winkel JS,Damkier P,Hallas J,Henriksen DP

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The following article from Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, “Epidemiological evaluation of intraoperative antibiosis as a protective agent against endophthalmitis after cataract surgery” by F. Krummenauer, S. Kurz and H.B. Dick, published online on July 11 2006 inWiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors：

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Most epidemiologic studies have detected no association between prior use of antidepressant medications and breast cancer risk. Despite the uniform conclusion, there is a continuous rise in the proportion of women using antidepressants, lending support to further monitoring of disease effects. METHODS:We condu...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Wernli KJ,Hampton JM,Trentham-Dietz A,Newcomb PA

更新日期：2009-04-01 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:To determine prescribing patterns by general physicians working in primary care (GPs) in Iran for the elderly and the prevalence of inappropriate prescribing. METHODS:We collected information about prescribed medicines for 10% of patients in primary care aged 65 years or above in six cities in one province dur...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Ghadimi H,Esmaily HM,Wahlstrom R

更新日期：2011-05-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Since the introduction of therapeutic risk management regulatory guidance, an increase in the number of risk minimization interventions (RMIs) published in the literature has been observed. Methods used to evaluate their effectiveness remain, however, poorly examined. OBJECTIVE:This paper aimed to conduct...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Gridchyna I,Cloutier AM,Nkeng L,Craig C,Frise S,Moride Y

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We present a new population-based pharmacoepidemiological (PE) database obtained from statutory health insurances (SHIs) that is able to generate signals, to monitor prescribed drugs and to describe drug utilisation. We discuss methodological features of the database and we assess to which degree this database ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Pigeot I,Ahrens W

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00