title: Prescription-event and other forms of epidemiological monitoring of side-effects in the UK.
abstract: The post-marketing surveillance (PMS) of drugs is necessary because of the limited size of the clinical safety database at the time of marketing. The principal hypothesis-generating methods of PMS are spontaneous reporting (e.g. the yellow card) and Prescription Event Monitoring. These methods are discussed in this chapter and certain basic pharmacoepidemiological issues that are relevant are briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Drug Safety Research Unit and the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D000368:Aged; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011358:Product Surveillance, Postmarketing; D006113:United Kingdom