Safety profile of nicorandil - Prescription-event monitoring (PEM) study

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 197-205

  Dunn, Nick ^a   Freemantle, Shayne ^a   Pearce, Gillian ^a   Wilton, Lynda V ^a   Mann, Ronald D ^a  

^a DRUG SAFETY RESEARCH UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Event rates; General practice; Nicorandil; Prescription event monitoring study

Indexed keywords

CORONARY VASODILATING AGENT; NICORANDIL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DROWSINESS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPEPSIA; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HEARTBURN; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LASSITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MIGRAINE; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; THORAX PAIN; TREMOR; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

EID: 0033031689     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1557(199905/06)8:3<197::AID-PDS422>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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