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Expanding Roles of Hospital Epidemiology: Pharmacoepidemiology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2016
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In the past few years, several hospital epidemiology programs in the United States have developed the capacity to monitor drug usage in hospitalized patients. This activity has been stimulated by a Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) mandate to monitor antimicrobial agents and also by the emergence of technology for automated medical record linkage. There is a growing recognition that these methods to link computerized pharmacy records and discharge diagnoses can be used to identify “signals” for side effects and toxicities of all drugs and not only just for antimicrobial agents. In addition, clinical trials designed to detect occurrences of adverse experiences with commonly used antimicrobials have led some hospital epidemiologists to seek collaboration with experts in the methodologies for study of drug usage and drug effects, i.e., pharmacoepidemiologists.
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