Modified Prescription-Event Monitoring Studies

Drug Safety - Tập 34 - Trang e1-e9 - 2012
Deborah Layton1,2, Lorna Hazell1,2, Saad A.W. Shakir1,2
1Drug Safety Research Unit, Southampton, UK
2Associate Department of the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

Tóm tắt

Prescription-Event Monitoring (PEM) is a well established postmarketing surveillance technique designed to monitor the overall safety of newly marketed medicines as used in real-life clinical practice, usually in cohorts of at least 10000 patients. At the Drug Safety Research Unit in the UK we are now moving towards a more targeted safety surveillance known as Modified PEM (M-PEM). These studies combine the advantages of conventional PEM studies (in monitoring general safety and identification of unexpected risks of a medicine) with that of a more targeted safety study that addresses specific questions (to better understand known or partially known risks with a medicine). Through the use of enhanced data collection questionnaires, M-PEM expands the range of applications of conventional PEM, which include more detailed characterization of real-life drug use, adherence to prescribing recommendations and targeted analysis of events requiring special monitoring by regulatory authorities. A particularly useful application is the evaluation of the safety of a medicine in special populations or subgroups (e.g. patients switching from another therapy or patients with a particular risk factor) or following important changes in the product’s lifecycle (e.g. a licensing or formulation change). M-PEM studies therefore have an important contribution to make to pharmacovigilance and the risk management of medicines by providing valuable information on the use of new medications under real-life situations.

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