Seq #117 Friday, 10 March 2006
10:45 AM-12:15 PM Dolphin Hotel Asia 3, Symposium - Group/Division Sponsored
[AADR] Medical/Dental Insurance Databases and Drug Safety Surveillance

Sponsored by: Behavioral Sciences
Description: Recent failures of the Drug Safety Surveillance system in the United States and abroad, as evidenced by market withdrawals of commonly used medications, reminded us of the many limitations in the way we monitor long term drug safety. Although drug safety evaluation is primarily performed during clinical development, clinical trials are not efficient in identifying rare adverse effects. Similarly, the post-market system suffers from inherent limitations, including the under reporting of voluntary reports of adverse effects. As a source of healthcare utilization data, administrative insurance databases present a viable and efficient alternative for proactive safety surveillance. Several serious adverse effects have now been identified from analyzing medical claims and successful surveillance programs have been put in place in the medical field
 
  10:45 AM Dental Plans in the United States
T. BROWN, National Association of Dental Plans, Dallas, TX, USA
  11:05 AM Working with dental claims data
D. ALBERT, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  11:25 AM Medical claims-based drug safety surveillance
A. CHAN, Ingenix - United Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  11:45 AM Bisphosponates & Osteonecrosis: a case study
A.I. ZAVRAS, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
  12:05 PM Discussion

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