Free event
“Serious Adverse Events: Challenges and new ideas”
Mon 23 March 2015, 2:00 - 4:45pm at RSS HQ, Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX.
For more information click here. To register email Dr Gill Price at gill.price@uea.ac.uk
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Medicines are not just a commodity
Medicines are not just a commodity: the International Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB), the Medicines in Europe Forum (MiEF) and the Nordic Cochrane Centre (NCC) welcome the decision to leave responsibility for medicinal products with Health Commissioner (joint press release).
http://www.isdbweb.org/publications/view/medicines-are-not-just-a-commodity
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PROJECT
PROTECT project (Pharmacoepidemiological Research on Outcomes of Therapeutics by a European Consortium): a consortium of 33 public and private participants coordinated by the European Medicines Agency, aiming to strengthen the monitoring of the benefit-risk of medicines in Europe.
New publications
Saini P, Loke YK, Gamble C, Altman DG, Williamson PR, Kirkham JJ. Selective reporting bias of harm outcomes within studies: findings from a cohort of systematic reviews. BMJ. 2014 Nov 21;349.
Loke YK, Mattishent K. If nothing happens, is everything all right? Distinguishing genuine reassurance from a false sense of security. CMAJ. 2015 Jan 6;187(1):15-6.
Golder S, Wright K, Rodgers M. The contribution of different information sources to identify adverse effects of a medical device: a case study using a systematic review of spinal fusion. International Journal of Health Technology Assessment in Health Care 2014, 30:4,1-7.
Golder S, Loke YK, Zorzela L. Comparison of search strategies in systematic reviews of adverse effects to other systematic reviews.Health Information and Libraries Journal.. 2014;31(2):92-105.
Golder S, Wright K, Rodgers M. Failure or success of search strategies to identify adverse effects of medical devices: a feasibility study using a systematic review. Systematic Reviews 2014, 3:113.
Zorzela L, Golder S, Liu Y, Pilkington K, Hartling L, Joffe A, Loke Y, Vohra S. Quality of reporting in systematic reviews of adverse events: systematic review. BMJ. 2014: 348.
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Discussion List
For details on how to join our discussion please go to; https://lists.cochrane.org/mailman/listinfo/aemg