Trends in the use of maintenance immunosuppressive drugs among liver transplant recipients in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based study.

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare birth outcomes between women exposed and unexposed to the antiviral medications oseltamivir or zanamivir during pregnancy. METHODS:This was an observational cohort study including women who gave birth to singletons in Sweden 2005-2007 and their infants. We obtained information from the national heal...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Svensson T,Granath F,Stephansson O,Kieler H

更新日期：2011-10-01 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:To provide an up-to-date account of drug prescription during pregnancy in France from 2011 to 2014 using the permanent sample of the French national computerized healthcare database and with a focus on recommended supplementations, fetotoxic drugs and teratogenic drugs. METHODS:All pregnancies identified by th...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Demailly R,Escolano S,Quantin C,Tubert-Bitter P,Ahmed I

更新日期：2017-09-01 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 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:To estimate the incidence trend and outcome of paracetamol poisoning, in relation to increased availability of paracetamol from non-pharmacy outlets in 2009. METHOD:Patients' serum paracetamol results over 14 years (2000-2013) from 20 (out of 21) regions in Sweden were linked to national registers of hospital ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Gedeborg R,Svennblad B,Holm L,Sjögren H,Bardage C,Personne M,Sjöberg G,Feltelius N,Zethelius B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An information-theoretic definition of similarity proposed by Dekang Lin in 1998 appears to have attractive properties for identifying medically similar cases in a large database. Examination of similar cases that appear following vaccination may provide a way of detecting previously unexpected associations. A key ele...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Walker AM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Drug treatment of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) is a difficult task, and comorbidity and comedication add to its complexity. Since in IPD there is little information about drug use, this study investigated drug prescribing and indications in IPD patients. METHODS:From June 1997 to April 1998, a cross-se...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Leoni O,Martignoni E,Cosentino M,Michielotto D,Calandrella D,Zangaglia R,Riboldazzi G,Oria C,Lecchini S,Nappi G,Frigo G

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the present study was to investigate to what extent patients using prescription antiobesity drugs (orlistat, sibutramine and rimonabant) concomitantly or concurrently used psychotropic drugs and analgesics and the association between this drug use and the patients' gender and age. An additional aim was t...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Amundsen MO,Engdahl B,Berg C,Nordeng H

更新日期：2010-03-01 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: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：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:The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project conducts near real-time vaccine safety surveillance using sequential analytic methods. Timely surveillance is critical in identifying potential safety problems and preventing additional exposure before most vaccines are administered. For vaccines that are administered d...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Greene SK,Kulldorff M,Yin R,Yih WK,Lieu TA,Weintraub ES,Lee GM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous reports have suggested that new evidence of the comparative effectiveness of different medication classes from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) does not always alter treatment decisions for first-line anti-hypertensive therapy. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the association of RCT evidence in December 2...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Delaney JA,McClelland RL,Furberg CD,Cooper R,Shea S,Burke G,Psaty BM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study is to assess positive predictive value (PPV), relative to medical chart review, of International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9/10 diagnostic codes for identifying opioid overdoses and poisonings. METHODS:Data were obtained from Kaiser Permanente Northwest and Northern California....

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Green CA,Perrin NA,Janoff SL,Campbell CI,Chilcoat HD,Coplan PM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing reliance on databases of healthcare records for pharmacoepidemiology and other medical research, and such resources are often accessed over a long period of time so it is vital to consider the impact of changes in data, access methodology and the environment. The authors discuss change in commun...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Bourke A,Bate A,Sauer BC,Brown JS,Hall GC

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This paper introduces an improved tool for designing matched-pairs randomized trials. The tool allows the incorporation of clinical and other knowledge regarding the relative importance of variables used in matching and allows for multiple types of missing data. The method is illustrated in the context of a clu...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Greevy RA Jr,Grijalva CG,Roumie CL,Beck C,Hung AM,Murff HJ,Liu X,Griffin MR

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：PURPOSE:Drug induced Torsades de Pointes (TdP) is a major concern for new drugs seeking regulatory approval. Prolongation of QT intervals greater than 60 millisecond or to longer than 500 millisecond in an individual patient has been considered to be associated with a higher risk. The purpose of this study is to identi...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Lin YL,Kung MF

更新日期：2009-03-01 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 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 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:The aims of this study are to examine the validity of diagnostic codes for psoriatic arthritis in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) and to examine the agreement between General Practitioner (GP) report and prescription records for disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). METHODS:Questionnaires were ...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Ogdie A,Alehashemi S,Love TJ,Jiang Y,Haynes K,Hennessy S,Choi H,Gelfand JM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:An increasing consumption of opioids in the general population has been reported in several countries also among pregnant women. Limited information is available regarding the effect of prenatal exposure to analgesic opioids on long-term neurocognitive function in children. The primary aim of the study was to d...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Skovlund E,Handal M,Selmer R,Brandlistuen RE,Skurtveit S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The decision whether to continue antidepressant use for depression during pregnancy requires weighing maternal and child risks and benefits. Little is known about the effectiveness of antidepressant therapy during pregnancy. The goal of this study is to evaluate whether standard administrative claims data can b...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Swanson SA,Hernandez-Diaz S,Palmsten K,Mogun H,Olfson M,Huybrechts KF

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Propensity scores are used in observational studies to adjust for confounding, although they do not provide control for confounders omitted from the propensity score model. We sought to determine if tests used to evaluate logistic model fit and discrimination would be helpful in detecting the omission of an imp...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Weitzen S,Lapane KL,Toledano AY,Hume AL,Mor V

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although a series of serious adverse events have continually raised concerns about the potential toxicity of traditional Chinese medicine injections (TCM injections), studies on this subject are still sparse. We conducted a descriptive analysis of a spontaneous reporting system in China to describe the safety p...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Li H,Deng J,Deng L,Ren X,Xia J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although sales of prescribed and over-the-counter (OTC) medication are rising, little is known about individual drug intake. This study was aimed to obtain complementary information about drug intake. METHOD:Information on drug utilization was obtained in a female cohort for five different time points (TP): 36...

journal_title：Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

authors： Hoeke H,Roeder S,Bertsche T,Borte M,von Bergen M,Wissenbach DK

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：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