Pharmacoepidemiology
Evaluate medication utilization, effectiveness, safety, adherence, and treatment outcomes in real-world populations.
Understanding How Medicines Perform in the Real World
Clinical trials provide important evidence about efficacy and safety under controlled conditions. However, healthcare stakeholders often need answers about how therapies perform across broader and more diverse patient populations.
Pharmacoepidemiology combines epidemiologic methods with pharmaceutical research to evaluate medication use, effectiveness, safety, and outcomes in real-world clinical practice.
Key Questions We Help Answer
At Evimed Health, we help organizations understand the real-world experience of patients receiving therapies across various healthcare settings.
- Who is receiving treatment?
- How closely are therapies used according to guidelines?
- How long do patients remain on treatment?
- What factors drive discontinuation?
- What are real-world effectiveness outcomes?
- Are there unexpected safety signals?
- Which patient subgroups derive the greatest benefit?
Research Areas
Drug Utilization Studies
Evaluate:
- Initiation patterns
- Switching behavior
- Dose escalation
- Persistence
- Adherence
Treatment Effectiveness
Assess real-world outcomes including:
- Disease progression
- Hospitalization
- Clinical response
- Resource utilization
Medication Safety
Monitor:
- Adverse events
- Rare outcomes
- Long-term safety
- Safety signal detection
Data Sources
We select and combine the healthcare data that can answer each research question.
- Healthcare Claims
- Electronic Health Records
- Pharmacy Databases
- Disease Registries
Deliverables
What you receive at the end of a pharmacoepidemiology study.
The full study write-up: design, data sources, methods and findings.
Real-world evidence prepared for submissions and agency questions.
How treatments are started, switched, dosed and continued.
Adverse event and long-term safety findings from real-world data.
Peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and congress materials.
Related Services
Safety StudiesMonitor and evaluate real-world safety outcomes across healthcare populations.Learn more
Patient Journey AnalyticsUnderstand how patients move through diagnosis, treatment, disease progression, and healthcare systems.Learn more
Comparative Effectiveness ResearchAssess how treatments perform against available alternatives in real-world settings.Learn moreFrequently Asked Questions
Short answers about epidemiology and real-world research.
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Our epidemiologists can talk through your research question and data needs.
What is pharmacoepidemiology?
Pharmacoepidemiology combines epidemiologic methods with pharmaceutical research to evaluate medication use, effectiveness, safety and outcomes in real-world clinical practice.
What is a drug utilization study?
A drug utilization study describes how a medicine is prescribed and used, including initiation, switching, dose escalation, persistence and adherence.
What is the difference between pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance?
Pharmacovigilance monitors and reports adverse drug reactions. Pharmacoepidemiology is the wider research discipline that studies medicine use, effectiveness and safety in populations.
What is medication adherence?
Medication adherence is the extent to which patients take a medicine as prescribed. Persistence is how long they stay on treatment.
Why study medicines after clinical trials?
Real-world studies show how therapies perform in broader, more diverse populations and over longer periods than controlled clinical trials can.
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