Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences,

Division of Pharmacoepidemiology
                           & Clinical Pharmacology

                  
                          Phone : +31 (0)30 253 7324
                        E-mail :  science.officeff@uu.nl  

About the division

The Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology consists of a multidisciplinary team of young and internationally oriented researchers. The research program is directed at several epidemiological, therapeutic, and policy aspects of chronic drug use, especially focusing on anti-asthmatics, cardiovascular drugs, and psychotropics. The internationally acclaimed Pharmo record linkage system  was initially developed at the division, in close collaboration with the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

 

Population-based studies of drug treatment: from molecule to patient outcomes

With the prospect that innovative drug therapies will be introduced in the coming years, society demands new approaches and concepts for comparative risk/benefit evaluation. Those evaluations will be carried out once these therapies have been used widely in daily practice. Comparisons of the risk and benefit of different drug therapies will be done in the framework of observational epidemiological studies (proof of 'safety', proof of 'effectiveness'). This is the logical next step after randomized clinical trials, which are designed to provide evidence of a drug's 'efficacy'.