4. Large, Automated Administrative and Clinical Databases Available for Pharmacoepidemiology Studies in Japan

Pharmacoepidemiology in Japan: medical databases and research achievements

Pharmacoepidemiology involves development of new models to predict safety in the development stages of pharmaceutical products, development of various guidelines and policy related to clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, establishment and implementation of risk management in postmarketing studies, and cost-effectiveness research in medical and social welfare sectors. Evaluations of safety, effic...

simulation and experimental studies for prediction mineral scale formation in oil field during mixing of injection and formation water

abstract: mineral scaling in oil and gas production equipment is one of the most important problem that occurs while water injection and it has been recognized to be a major operational problem. the incompatibility between injected and formation waters may result in inorganic scale precipitation in the equipment and reservoir and then reduction of oil production rate and water injection rate. ...

Administrative databases: are they useful for clinical analyses?

To the Editor:—We are pleased that Rosero et al. pursued a study of the epidemiology of malignant hyperthermia (MH). We agree with Rosero et al. that reporting to the North American Malignant Hyperthermia Registry may underestimate MH mortality. From the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States Hotline and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Closed Claims Project database w...

Identifying Patterns of Practice in Large Administrative Health Databases

It has become crucial for health service administrators to gain better understanding of current medical treatment patterns and associated costs to predict further developments of the processes governing health changes, to estimate health costs into the future. Episodic mining is a method that can assist organizations to increase their productivity and performance by considering some domain spec...

Discrepancies in administrative databases: implications for practice and research.