TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Postmarketing Medication Safety Surveillance: A Current Public Health Issue A1 - Rahman, Mirza I. A1 - Dabbous, Omar H. A2 - Wallace, Robert B. PY - 2017 T2 - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e AB - With more than 3.6 billion prescriptions being dispensed annually in the United States, it is clear that Americans are using more prescribed medication than at any other time in history.1 In addition, the use of nonprescription medication, including alternative medicines, is growing rapidly. While this increased medication use is due to a variety of reasons, including an aging population, the availability of many more effective drugs for myriad chronic diseases, and the desire to prevent disease, it can lead to unwanted adverse events (AEs), even as they provide great benefit. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Medical CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/09 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141961983 ER -