Important drug safety information on the Internet: Assessing its accuracy and reliability

Drug Safety

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 519-527

  Tatsioni, Athina ^a   Gerasi, Evagelia ^a   Charitidou, Eumorfili ^a   Simou, Nafsika ^a   Mavreas, Venetsanos ^a   Ioannidis, John P A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALOSETRON; AMIODARONE; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; CAPECITABINE; CERIVASTATIN; DIDANOSINE; FAMOTIDINE; GENERIC DRUG; ITRACONAZOLE; LEVACETYLMETHADOL; LINEZOLID; MESORIDAZINE BESYLATE; MICONAZOLE; NEVIRAPINE; OXYCODONE; PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE; PROPOFOL; RAPACURONIUM BROMIDE; RIVASTIGMINE; STAVUDINE; TERBINAFINE; TOPIRAMATE; VACCINE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLEEDING; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRONCHOSPASM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSTIPATION; CONSUMER; DEVICE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERNET; ISCHEMIC COLITIS; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; TORSADE DES POINTES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

DRUG INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MEDICATION ERRORS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0038239880     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200326070-00005     Document Type: Article

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