Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) · 1995 · 57 citations · 0 references
PharmacyPharmacologyClinical PharmacologyElectronic Health RecordsPharmacovigilanceAdverse Drug Event DetectionAdverse Drug Event ReportingAdverse Drug Reaction MonitoringDrug Safety MonitoringPharmacovigilance Data SourcesSpontaneous Reporting SystemsData Linkage In PharmacovigilanceElectronic Health Record-based PharmacovigilancePharmacovigilance Data ManagementPharmacovigilance SystemsRecord Linkage
Post marketing surveillance of drugs is important. The Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO) has developed an automated database based on record-linkage techniques to conduct post-marketing drug safety studies. MEMO has access to data for the 400,000 residents of Tayside, Scotland, which are all indexed by the Community Health Number (CHNo), a unique patient identifier. Dispensed prescribing records can be linked to hospitalization records, via the CHNo, to conduct drug utilization studies, case-control studies and cohort studies. Such studies are described and future developments in MEMO are also discussed.