| アブストラクト | PURPOSE: To determine the frequency and characteristics of safety advisories issued by medicines regulatory agencies in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). METHODS: This retrospective analysis examines medicines safety warnings issued by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada (HC), the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) from January 1, 2007 until December 31, 2016. A database of warnings obtained from regulators' websites was developed and warnings were classified by communication type, drug, or therapeutic class focus, and the risk discussed. Advisories identifying the same drug or therapeutic class and risk were combined into groups termed "drug-risk issues" for comparisons between regulators. RESULTS: Over this 10-year period, 1441 advisories were identified, with the MHRA issuing the most advisories (MHRA = 469, FDA = 382, HC = 370 TGA = 220). Seventy two percent focussed on single drugs (1034/1441) and 58.7% were alerts (846/1441) posted on the regulators' websites. Diabetes drugs, smoking cessation drugs and immunomodulatory agents were the individual drug types most often subject to safety advisories, while antidepressants, antipsychotics, and proton-pump inhibitors were the top three therapeutic classes. Of 680 identified drug-risk issues, 3.8% (26/680) described a risk of death. By body system, cardiac effects were the most frequent: 10.4% (71/680). CONCLUSION: We found considerable differences in the use of advisories including frequency, communication type, and focus. Disparities in communication about emergent evidence on risks may mean that clinicians and patients in some countries are less well informed about medicine safety concerns than others. |
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| ジャーナル名 | Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety |
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| Pubmed追加日 | 2020/7/23 |
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| 投稿者 | Perry, Lucy T; Bhasale, Alice; Fabbri, Alice; Lexchin, Joel; Puil, Lorri; Joarder, Maisah; Mintzes, Barbara |
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| 組織名 | School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, and Charles Perkins Centre,;University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.;Centre for Evidence Based Medicine Odense, Odense University Hospital and;University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.;School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health, York University,;Toronto, Ontario, Canada.;Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine,;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32696556/ |
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