Detection and Evaluation of Adverse Drug Reactions

Description

Adverse drug reactions continue to be a burden on healthcare, generating significant morbidity and mortality. In addition to understanding the advantages of medicines, healthcare practitioners must be aware of the problem of adverse drug responses and how they can be avoided and managed. This book summarises current knowledge on basic processes of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Not only is the subject matter thoroughly addressed, but it is also presented in an extremely user-friendly manner. The primary emphasis is on medication responses since they are the most difficult to manage. There is also a discussion of numerous ADR cases that assist to highlight certain characteristics of ADR systems. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that new approaches are required to forecast which medication candidates are likely to generate ADRs and which patients are at higher risk. However, current research appears to be a long way from this aim.