Patient‐Initiated Postmarketing Surveillance: A Validation Study
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
- Vol. 27 (11), 843-854
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1552-4604.1987.tb05578.x
Abstract
A new patient‐initiated, pharmacy‐based postmarketing surveillance system is described. At the time a new prescription for a targeted drug was filled, 2705 outpatients (experimentals) randomly assigned to the new system had a printed notice attached to their medication bags: the information requested them to report any “new or unusual symptoms” during the next 2 weeks by a toll‐free telephone number to a trained nonprofessional who conducted a standardized adverse drug reaction (ADR) interview. To help validate the new system, another sample of 1109 patients (controls) did not receive a request for self‐monitoring but were interviewed by telephone 2 weeks later. Target drugs were chosen from two classes for which side effect profiles are well identified: oral antibiotics and tricyclic antidepressants. Results show that within both drug classes, all patient‐initiated reports closely matched those obtained from controls; the experimental and control groups also reported predictably high relative frequencies for the most commonly expected ADRs. Additional analyses suggest that a patient‐initiated monitoring system could prove to be a promising complement to existing physician‐based surveillance systems.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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