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Prescription‐event and other forms of epidemiological monitoring of side‐effects in the UK
Author(s) -
Dunn N.,
Mann R. D.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2222.1999.0290s3217.x
Subject(s) - medical prescription , epidemiology , event (particle physics) , medicine , pharmacology , physics , quantum mechanics
The post‐marketing surveillance (PMS) of drugs is necessary because of the limited size of the clinical safety database at the time of marketing. The principal hypothesis‐generating methods of PMS are spontaneous reporting (e.g. the yellow card) and Prescription Event Monitoring. These methods are discussed in this chapter and certain basic pharmacoepidemiological issues that are relevant are briefly reviewed.