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 …

Once a small, arcane discipline at the fringes of both epidemiology and pharmacology,
pharmacoepidemiology is emerging as a central discipline for the health‐care delivery …

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 …

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 …

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Clinical Problems to be Addressed by
Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Methodologic Problems to be Addressed by …

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 …

Clinical pharmacology comprises all aspects of the scientific study of medicinal drugs in
humans. 1 Its overall objective is to provide the knowledge base needed to ensure rational …

Interest in the field of pharmacoepidemiology by the pharmaceutical industry, government
agencies, new trainees, and the public has increased greatly, and the realization of what …

Pharmacoepidemiology plays an important role in the regulation of medicines throughout
the medicine's entire life cycle. Applications of pharmacoepidemiology include assessing …