Learning the effects of psychotropic drugs during pregnancy using real-world safety data: a paradigm shift toward modern pharmacovigilance

International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Tập 40 - Trang 783-786 - 2018
Angela Lupattelli1, Olav Spigset2,3, Hedvig Nordeng1,4
1PharmacoEpidemiology and Drug Safety Research Group, School of Pharmacy, and PharmaTox Strategic Research Initiative, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St Olav’s University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
3Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
4Department of Child Health and Development, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Tóm tắt

The growing evidence on psychotropic drug safety in pregnancy has been possible thanks to the increasing availability of real-world data, i.e. data not collected in conventional randomised controlled trials. Use of these data is a key to establish psychotropic drug effects on foetal, child, and maternal health. Despite the inherent limitations and pitfalls of observational data, these can still be informative after a critical appraisal of the collective body of evidence has been done. By valuing real-world safety data, and making these a larger part of the regulatory decision-making process, we move toward a modern pregnancy pharmacovigilance. The recent uptake of real-world safety data by health authorities has set the basis for an important paradigm shift, which is integrating such data into drug labelling. The recent safety assessment of sodium valproate in pregnant and childbearing women is probably one of the first examples of modern pregnancy pharmacovigilance.

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