Quantification of Adverse Drug Reactions Related to Drug Switches in The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: We performed a retrospective cohort study in the Dutch patient population to identify active substances with a relatively high number of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) potentially related to drug switching. For this, we analyzed drug switches and reported ADRs related to switching between June 1, 2009, and December 31, 2016, for a selection of 20 active substances. We also compared pharmacovigilance analyses based on the absolute, switch-corrected, and user-corrected numbers of ADRs. In total, 1,348 reported ADRs and over 23.8 million drug switches were obtained from the National Health Care Institute in The Netherlands and from Lareb, which is The Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre. There was no correlation between the number of ADRs and the number of switches, but, on average, we found

SUBMITTER: Glerum PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214643 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature