In the last decades, we have witnessed a tremendous progress in the medical sciences that
has led to the development of a great number of new powerful pharmaceuticals. These new …

Pharmacoepidemiology is a relatively new and evolving science that attempts to quantify
mainly adverse drug events and patterns of drug use in a large population. The strength of …

Pharmacoepidemiology is the application of epidemiological principles and methods to the
study of drug effects in human populations. The goal of this discipline is to characterize …

At the time of their marketing authorization, the effects of drugs and especially their efficacy
have been mostly studied in randomized controlled clinical trials (RCT), comparing them to …

The aims of this review are to provide a comprehensive overview of the definition and scope
of pharmacoepidemiology, to summarize the study designs and methodologies used in the …

Clinical evaluation of drugs before approval is based on the experimental design of clinical
trial with randomization of drug exposure. Unfortunately, conclusions of clinical trials are …

Pharmacoepidemiology is a method of scientific data analysis employed to investigate and
evaluate how drugs are used in a large population, as well as the relationship of the …

There seems to be an uncertainty about what pharmacoepidemiology is and what it
includes, especially in industry and government circles. At times the word …

This article is the first of two parts on pharmacoepidemiology, a relatively new science that
explores drug efficacy or toxicity using large observational study designs. The number of …

Pharmacoepidemiology is a relatively young scientific discipline that has seen tremendous
growth in interest over the past two decades. This is partly due to changes in the approval of …