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Pharmacoepidemiology studies explore the utilization and effects of medicine and other medical products in populations. While the sector has made significant strides in adults, there's a national need for pharmacoepidemiology studies in children. Pediatric pharmacotherapy is challenging because developmental changes and other factors may alter the security and efficacy of medicine in children.In 2013, U.S. expenditures for retail prescribed
drugs , durable medical goods, and other non-durable medical products were approximately $370 billion. In order to make sure high value care, it's important for decision-makers (i.e., patients, caregivers, clinicians and third-party payers) to understand whether a particular drug therapy provides value for the cash . The results of pharmacoepidemiology studies are often wont to help set priorities for the allocation of
health care budgets at both individual and national levels. Clinical evaluation of medicine before approval is predicated on the experimental design of clinical test with randomization of drug exposure. Unfortunately, conclusions of clinical trials are necessarily limited to patients included into the trials. It is thus necessary to match these experimental data coming from clinical trials with the important use of medicine in clinical practice. Pharmacoepidemiology is that the study of interactions between
drugs and human populations, investigating, in real conditions of life, benefits, risks and use of medicine . Pharmacoepidemiology which applies to
drugs the methods and/or reasoning of both
pharmacology and epidemiology.
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