RT Book, Section
A1 Rahman, Mirza I.
A1 Dabbous, Omar H.
A2 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141961983
T1 Postmarketing Medication Safety Surveillance: A Current Public Health Issue
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141961983
RD 2024/10/09
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.