The Tayside Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO): A record-linkage system for pharmacovigilance

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Tayside Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO)

T2 - A record-linkage system for pharmacovigilance

AU - Evans, J. M M

AU - McDevitt, D. G.

AU - MacDonald, T. M.

PY - 1995/12/1

Y1 - 1995/12/1

N2 - Post marketing surveillance of drugs is important. The Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO) has developed an automated database based on record-linkage techniques to conduct post-marketing drug safety studies. MEMO has access to data for the 400,000 residents of Tayside, Scotland, which are all indexed by the Community Health Number (CHNo), a unique patient identifier. Dispensed prescribing records can be linked to hospitalization records, via the CHNo, to conduct drug utilization studies, case-control studies and cohort studies. Such studies are described and future developments in MEMO are also discussed.

AB - Post marketing surveillance of drugs is important. The Medicines Monitoring Unit (MEMO) has developed an automated database based on record-linkage techniques to conduct post-marketing drug safety studies. MEMO has access to data for the 400,000 residents of Tayside, Scotland, which are all indexed by the Community Health Number (CHNo), a unique patient identifier. Dispensed prescribing records can be linked to hospitalization records, via the CHNo, to conduct drug utilization studies, case-control studies and cohort studies. Such studies are described and future developments in MEMO are also discussed.

KW - Medicines Monitoring Unit

KW - MEMO

KW - Pharmacovigilance

KW - Record-linkage

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0029595410

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:0029595410

SN - 0265-0673

VL - 9

SP - 177

EP - 184

JO - Pharmaceutical Medicine

JF - Pharmaceutical Medicine

IS - 3

ER -