3. Pharmacovigilance of Herbal and Traditional Medicines
Li Zhang
4. Pediatric Pharmacovigilance: Current Practice and Future Perspectives
Lise Aagaard
5. Detecting Safety Issues in Clinical Trials
Emma Heeley
6. Developments and Future Directions of Prescription-Based Observational Cohort Pharmacovigilance
Deborah Layton
7. Electronic Health Record, Transactional Insurance Claims, and Distributed Databases in Pharmacovigilance
Kevin Haynes
8. Patient Registries for Safetyness
Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf
9. Patient-Reported Outcomes in Pharmacovigilance
Linda Härmark
10. Evidence-Based Pharmacovigilance for Medicines Used in Public Health Programs in Africa
Haggar Hilda Ampadu, Yvonne Esseku, and Alexander N.O. Dodoo
11. Pharmacoepidemiological Approaches for Population-Based Hypothesis Testing
Olaf H. Klungel
12. Risk Management and Minimization
Yola Moride
13. Benefit-Risk Assessment in Pharmacovigilance
Ola Caster
Concluding Thoughts
Andrew Bate
This book examines insights into the latest thinking and core concepts in areas of key methodological endeavor in Pharmacovigilance (PV), which strives to ever more effectively protect patients from harm caused by the medicines they need. Each book chapter tends to have a clear quantitative or clinical slant and an aim to provide an overview of methodological insights within a specific topic, while also providing a perspective on how the area is anticipated to develop in the future. Quantitative chapters focus more on statistical and epidemiological strategies and the thinking that underpins core developments in Pharmacovigilance, whereas clinical chapters focus on clinical methods for detecting hypotheses for and determining side effects of medicinal products as well as misdiagnosis pitfalls. Examples of areas of importance include signal detection, risk management, and risk benefit assessment.
Vital and authoritative, Evidence-Based Pharmacovigilance: Clinical and Quantitative Aspects aims to provide readers with a sense of the advances that have occurred in pharmacovigilance methods and approaches, as well as inspiration and motivation to advance the field of pharmacovigilance with a strong sense that there is much more work to be done in ensuring the safe use of medications by patients.