Assessing the Impact on Health of Pharmacovigilance Activities: Example of Four Safety Signals.

Florence P A M van HunselLaura PetersHelga GardarsdottirAgnes Kant

Published in: Drug safety (2021)

This article highlights the methodological challenges and the data required to assess the impact of product-specific safety signals. A structured assessment support tool can be used as a guide for the necessary data elements and steps needed for the measurement or estimation of impact of pharmacovigilance activities on public health, provided that the appropriate data are available.

Keyphrases

public health
electronic health record
big data
adverse drug
healthcare
mental health
drug induced
machine learning
data analysis
risk assessment
artificial intelligence
climate change
health information