With the prospect that innovative drug therapies will be introduced in the coming years, society demands new approaches and concepts for comparative risk/benefit evaluation. These evaluations are carried out once these therapies have been used widely in daily practice.
Assessment of safety and risk management of different drug therapies is done in the framework of observational epidemiological studies (proof of "safety", proof of "effectiveness"). This is the logical next step after randomized clinical trials, which are designed to provide evidence of a drugs "efficacy".The course will cover key issues in pharmacoepidemiologic and drug safety research. Special topics include databases and molecular pharmacoepidemiology.
All course teachers have extended expertise in the design and conduct of pharmacoepidemiologic studies. What to expect?You will experience an intensive programme covering the following topics:• Study Design and Methods• Confounding and other biases• Methods in drug safety research• Drug Safety and Risk Management• Overview of Pharmacoepidemiological databases• Molecular Pharmacoepidemiology• Drug utilization research• Synthesis, case studies & public health
Period
27-06-2011 - 01-07-2011 (1 weeks)
Target group
Postgraduates, clinicians and professionals within governments, industry, universities with a basic knowledge of epidemiology and an interest in pharmacoepidemiology and risk/benefit evaluation of drug therapies.
Course aim
Students will learn about the typical problems (e.g. confounding by indication, rare side effects) and approaches to deal with these problems in the practice of Pharmacoepidemiology.
Credits
0.0 ECTS creditsCertificate of Attendance
Course fee
EUR 1100Course + course materials + housing EUR 900[Convert to USD]Course + course materials
Course leader
Dr. O.H. Klungel
Scholarships
Utrecht Summer School doesn't offer scholarships for this course.
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Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety
