pharmacoepidemiology

Preferred Label : pharmacoepidemiology;

MeSH definition : The science concerned with the benefit and risk of drugs used in populations and the analysis of the outcomes of drug therapies. Pharmacoepidemiologic data come from both clinical trials and epidemiological studies with emphasis on methods for the detection and evaluation of drug-related adverse effects, assessment of risk vs benefit ratios in drug therapy, patterns of drug utilization, the cost-effectiveness of specific drugs, methodology of postmarketing surveillance, and the relation between pharmacoepidemiology and the formulation and interpretation of regulatory guidelines. (Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 1992;1(1); J Pharmacoepidemiol 1990;1(1));

MeSH synonym : pharmaceutical epidemiology; pharmaceutical epidemiologies; epidemiology, pharmaceutical; epidemiologies, pharmaceutical;

MeSH annotation : SPEC: SPEC qualif; DF: PHARMACOEPIDEMIOL;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacoepidemiology;

Details

Origin ID

D017891;

UMLS CUI

C0206371;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- pharmacoepidemiology [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- pharmacoepidemiology [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- pharmacoepidemiology [Q-code]

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