Paediatric pharmacovigilance: use of pharmacovigilance data mining algorithms for signal detection in a safety dataset of a paediatric clinical study conducted in seven African countries.

Paediatric pharmacovigilance: use of pharmacovigilance data mining algorithms for signal detection in a safety dataset of a paediatric clinical study conducted in seven African countries.

Pharmacovigilance programmes monitor and help ensuring the safe use of medicines which is critical to the success of public health programmes. The commonest method used for discovering previously unknown safety risks is spontaneous notifications. In this study we examine the use of data mining algor...

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Main Authors: Dan K Kajungu, Annette Erhart, Ambrose Otau Talisuna, Quique Bassat, Corine Karema, Carolyn Nabasumba, Michael Nambozi, Halidou Tinto, Peter Kremsner, Martin Meremikwu, Umberto D'Alessandro, Niko Speybroeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4006882?pdf=render

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