Course Description
The course covers pharmacoepidemiology and its importance in pharmacy practice, principles of epidemiology applied to the study of medication use, study designs (observational study, experimental study, meta-analysis and case report), data sources (pharmacy claims data, validity of data, defining exposure, defining outcomes), medication safety pharmacovigilence (use of pharmacoepidemiology to study beneficial and adverse drug effects), continual monitoring for unwanted drug effects (post-marketing surveillance), applications in Pharmacy practice, medication adherence, statistics in pharmacopeias, international perspectives (global drug surveillance), other methodological issues (causality and confounding factors), future issues, case studies and some examples.
Course ID: CLPH 512
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 2 | 2 | 0.00 | 2 | PHTX 401 |
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