Melnychuk D, Moride Y, Abenhaim L
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish Hospital, Montreal, QC.
Can J Public Health. 1993 Jan-Feb;84(1):45-9.
The surveillance of individual and aggregate patterns of prescribed medication can potentially provide some very useful information to those involved in public health. At present however, this activity has attracted relatively little attention in Canada. This article will introduce a conceptual framework with which to examine the possibilities of prescription drug monitoring as a tool for public health surveillance. The sources of data available to undertake this activity as well as their limitations, will be presented along with some recent concrete applications.
对处方药的个体和总体使用模式进行监测，有可能为参与公共卫生工作的人员提供一些非常有用的信息。然而目前，这项活动在加拿大相对较少受到关注。本文将介绍一个概念框架，用以探讨将处方药监测作为公共卫生监测工具的可能性。还将介绍用于开展此项活动的数据来源及其局限性，并列举一些近期的具体应用实例。
