The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7495 p356
29 March 2008

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Records plan to spot ADRs

The electronic health records of 30 million patients from around Europe, including the UK, are to be used to try to identify adverse drug reactions that clinicians have failed to spot.

The EU is to spend e4.5m on the project, which is being co-ordinated by Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, and will concentrate on data mining and epidemiological computation techniques to identify ADRs in children.