 Pharmacoepidemiology
"Pharmacoepidemiology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The science concerned with the benefit and risk of drugs used in populations and the analysis of the outcomes of drug therapies. Pharmacoepidemiologic data come from both clinical trials and epidemiological studies with emphasis on methods for the detection and evaluation of drug-related adverse effects, assessment of risk vs benefit ratios in drug therapy, patterns of drug utilization, the cost-effectiveness of specific drugs, methodology of postmarketing surveillance, and the relation between pharmacoepidemiology and the formulation and interpretation of regulatory guidelines. (Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 1992;1(1); J Pharmacoepidemiol 1990;1(1))
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D017891
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.158.703.045 H02.403.720.500.650 H02.628.413
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| Concept/Terms |
Pharmacoepidemiology- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Pharmaceutical Epidemiology
- Epidemiologies, Pharmaceutical
- Pharmaceutical Epidemiologies
- Epidemiology, Pharmaceutical
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pharmacoepidemiology" by people in Profiles.
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Varma VR, Wang Y, An Y, Varma S, Bilgel M, Doshi J, Legido-Quigley C, Delgado JC, Oommen AM, Roberts JA, Wong DF, Davatzikos C, Resnick SM, Troncoso JC, Pletnikova O, O'Brien R, Hak E, Baak BN, Pfeiffer R, Baloni P, Mohmoudiandehkordi S, Nho K, Kaddurah-Daouk R, Bennett DA, Gadalla SM, Thambisetty M. Bile acid synthesis, modulation, and dementia: A metabolomic, transcriptomic, and pharmacoepidemiologic study. PLoS Med. 2021 05; 18(5):e1003615.
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Solomon DH, Ruppert K, Kazlauskaite R, Lian P, Kravitz HM. Sleep medications and sleep disturbances across middle aged pre- or peri-menopausal women of different race and ethnicities: A SWAN pharmacoepidemiology cohort study. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2020 12; 29(12):1715-1721.
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Solomon DH, Ruppert K, Kazlauskaite R, Finkelstein JS, Habel LA. Blood pressure lowering medication initiation and fracture risk: a SWAN pharmacoepidemiology study. Arch Osteoporos. 2019 06 28; 14(1):73.
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Santos CA, Brennan DC, Saeed MJ, Fraser VJ, Olsen MA. Pharmacoepidemiology of cytomegalovirus prophylaxis in a large retrospective cohort of kidney transplant recipients with Medicare Part D coverage. Clin Transplant. 2016 Apr; 30(4):435-44.
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