Experienced family doctor Ray Strand writes his patients prescriptions every week, but he also believes that prescribing drugs should be a last resort in most medical cases-not a first choice. In Death by Prescription he provides simple guidelines to help readers protect themsel…
Intro -- Missing data -- Where do new drugs come from? -- Bad regulators -- Bad trials -- Bigger, simpler trials -- Marketing -- Afterword: better data.
A practical guide to the assessment and evaluation of prescribing practices and to interventions to improve the use of medicines in populations.
General principles -- Epidemiological measures -- Other measures -- Strengths and limitations of individual-level statistics -- Chapter 8: Measurement of drug expenditure -- Introduction -- Definitions and perspectives -- Price-related units of pharmaceutical expenditure -- Meth…
"When a biological drug patent expires, alternative biosimilar products are developed. The development of biosimilar products is complicated and involves numerous considerations and steps. The assessment of biosimilarity and interchangeability is also complicated and difficult. …
The Textbook of Pharmacoepidemiology provides a streamlined text for evaluating the safety and effectiveness of medicines. It includes a brief introduction to pharmacoepidemiology as well as sections on data sources, methodology and applications.
