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Signal detection to identify serious adverse events (neuropsychiatric events) in travelers taking mefloquine for chemoprophylaxis of malaria

BACKGROUND: For all medications, there is a trade-off between benefits and potential for harm. It is important for patient safety to detect drug-event combinations and analyze by appropriate statistical methods. Mefloquine is used as chemoprophylaxis for travelers going to regions with known chloroq...

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Autores principales: Naing, Cho, Aung, Kyan, Ahmed, Syed Imran, Mak, Joon Wah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22936859
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/DHPS.S34493