| Literature DB >> 17632534 |
D A Hughes1, A M Bayoumi, M Pirmohamed.
Abstract
Regulatory risk-benefit assessments may overweight small but serious risks relative to benefits. Using terfenadine and torsade de pointes as an exemplar, we illustrate how a different decision may result when outcomes are assessed using quality-adjusted life-years within a decision-analytical framework. The adoption of common measures of health outcome and the use of decision analyses, which will allow uncertainty to be characterized and evidence to be compiled from disparate sources, may inform complex risk-benefit decisions and should be used in conjunction with qualitative assessments.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17632534 DOI: 10.1038/sj.clpt.6100240
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Pharmacol Ther ISSN: 0009-9236 Impact factor: 6.875