The computerised drug dispensing histories from community pharmacies contain data on the dispensed drug, dispensing date, type of prescriber, amount dispensed, prescribed dose regimens and the duration of use.
Because pharmacists have access to all required data on the drug dispensed, AE reporting via the SRS should work in the pharmacy setting, provided that other stakeholders (e.g., prescribers, other healthcare professionals, and patients) can also access these data.
Of these, 8,362 (14%) subjects were excluded because of missing data on the quantity dispensed or the days supplied, leaving 48,986 subjects whose dosage patterns were examined in the present study.
The main strength of this population-based study is the possibility to explore the data on ESA dispensing from four large geographic areas for a period of 5 years.
7, 8 The Aarhus University Prescription Database includes data on prescriptions dispensed in the outpatient pharmacies of the Central and North Denmark Regions, and includes dispensing date and drug type, coded using the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification.
We collected data on comorbidities and vascular procedures from the 9 years preceding the cohort entry date, as well as data on prescriptions dispensed from the 4 months preceding this date.
These data were drawn from reports issued by the Spanish Medications & Health Products Agency on the basis of data on packages dispensed under and charged to the National Health System.
Our analyses are based on prescription data, not on claims data or on data on drugs dispensed over the counter.
Data on drugs dispensed on prescription during the period 1975 198686 used a sample of 1/288 of all dispensed prescriptions.
