Pharmacovigilance in children: detecting adverse drug reactions in routine electronic healthcare records. A systematic review
- Black, Corri
- Tagiyeva-Milne, Nara
- Helms, Peter
- Moir, Dorothy
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AIMS: A systematic review of the literature published in English over 10 years was undertaken in order to describe the use of electronic healthcare data in the identification of potential adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in children. METHODS: MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched using MESH headings and text words. Titles, keywords and abstracts were checked for age <18 years, potential ADRs and electronic healthcare data. Information extracted included age, data source, pharmacovigilance method, medicines and ADRs. Studies were quality assessed. RESULTS: From 14 804 titles, 314 had a full text review and 71 were included in the final review. Fifty were published in North America, 10 in Scandinavia. Study size ranged from less tha...
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