Textbook of pharmacoepidemiology /

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Other Authors: Strom, Brian L., Kimmel, Stephen E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2006
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Table of Contents:
  • What is pharmacoepidemiology?
  • Study designs available for pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • Sample size considerations for pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • Basic principles of clinical pharmacology relevant to pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • When should one perform pharmacoepidemiology studies?
  • Views from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies
  • Spontaneous reporting in the United States
  • Global drug surveillance : the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring
  • Case-control surveillance
  • Prescription-event monitoring
  • Overview of automated databases in pharmacoepidemiology
  • Examples of automated databases
  • Other approaches to pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • How should one perform pharmacoepidemiology studies? choosing among the available alternatives
  • Validity of pharmacoepidemiologic drug and diagnosis data.
  • Bias and confounding in pharmacoepidemiology
  • Determining causation from case reports
  • Molecular pharmacoepidemiology
  • Bioethical issues in pharmacoepidemiologic research
  • The use of randomized controlled trials for pharmacoepidemiology studies
  • The use of pharmacoepidemiology to study beneficial drug effects
  • Pharmacoeconomics : economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals
  • Using quality-of-life measurements in pharmacoepidemiologic research
  • The use of meta-analysis in pharmacoepidemiology
  • Patient adherence to prescribed drug dosing regimens in ambulatory pharmacotherapy
  • Novel approaches to pharmacoepidemiology study design and statistical analysis
  • Special applications of pharmacoepidemiology
  • The future of pharmacoepidemiolgy.