Towards preventive pharmacovigilance through medicine misuse identification: an example with recombinant human growth hormone for aesthetic purposes

ConclusionsThis information was the basis to design interventions in order to reduce inappropriate utilisation of this expensive product. Analyses of how medicines are being used through pharmacovigilance databases are a way to identify its irrational utilisation, thus facilitating preventive actions to improve how medicines are used and reducing avoidable adverse effects.
Source: European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research