A compilation of research working groups on drug utilisation across Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The assessment of the benefit-risk of medicines needs careful consideration concerning their patterns of utilization. Systems for the monitoring of medicines consumption have been established in many European countries, and several international groups have identified and described them. No other compilation of European working groups has been published. As part of the PROTECT project, as a first step in searching for European data sources on the consumption of five selected groups of medicines, we aimed to identify and describe the main characteristics of the existing collaborative European working groups.

Findings

Google and bibliographic searches (PubMed) of articles containing information on databases and other sources of drug consumption data were conducted.

SUBMITTER: Sabate M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4008312 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature