부산대학교 도서관

The aims of intensive hospital-based cohort studies in pharmacoepidemiology are fourfold: (i) to provide information on overall patterns of drug use in hospitals; (ii) to obtain details of acute adverse events attributable to drugs used in hospitals, and to determine whether particular subgroups of hospitalized patients are at greater risk of experiencing adverse drug reactions than others; (iii) to obtain information on the frequency of certain major life threatening events occurring during hospitalization, be they drug related or not; and (iv) to identify associations between pre-hospital drug use and diseases or adverse events causing hospital admissions. The main advantage of the intensive hospital-based approach to pharmacoepidemiology studies is the very broad and comprehensive nature of its primary information sources.