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Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the use and effects of drugs in large numbers of people.(p3) It is a growing discipline that applies epidemiological techniques to study drug Pharmacology is the study of the effects of medications in humans.(p4) It pertains to using pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of a patient to predict the drug effect on a patient. Epidemiology is the study of the factors that determine the occurrence and distribution of diseases in populations.(p3).Epidemiology can often be divided into infectious and chronic disease epidemiology. Chronic disease epidemiology is more dependent on complex sampling and statistical methods; which are often used in pharmacoepidemiology studies to evaluate drug exposure over time.(p5) By combining the interest of pharmacology and epidemiology, a pharmacoepidemiologist applies epidemiology principles to study the effects of medications in human populations. There also are some areas that are altogether unique to pharmacoepidemiology, e.g., pharmacovigilance. Pharmacovigilance may be a sort of continual monitoring of unwanted effects and other safety-related aspects of medicine that are already placed in current growing integrating markets. In practice, pharmacovigilance refers almost exclusively to spontaneous reporting systems which permit health care professionals et al. to report the other adverse drug reactions to the central agency. The central agency combines reports from many sources to supply a more informative profile for drug products than might be done supported reports from fewer health care professionals.

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