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Drugs During Pregnancy Methodological Aspects /
This book addresses methodological aspects of epidemiological studies on maternal drug use in pregnancy. Discussing the existing sources of error and how they can produce incorrect conclusions, it examines various epidemiological techniques and assesses their strengths and weaknesses. These refer bo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The alert clinician
- Animal experiments and adverse drug reaction reports
- Some epidemiological principles
- Pregnancy outcomes with the exception of congenital malformations
- Congenital malformations
- Identification of maternal use of drugs
- The problem of confounding
- Statistics
- Lumping or splitting? Paternal use of drugs
- Timing of drug use and effects on the embryo or fetus
- Repeated studies and meta-analysis
- Pharmacovigilance
- Information on the risk with drug use during pregnancy
- Concluding remarks.