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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 634-641Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1097/01.CHI.0000046840.90931.36
Keywords
children; adverse events; treatment; psychopharmacology
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- NIMH NIH HHS [N01MH60005, N01MH60016] Funding Source: Medline
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To identify approaches to improving methods for assessing tolerability and safety of psychotropic medications in children and adolescents. Method: Strengths and limitations of current methodology were reviewed and possible alternatives examined. Results: Research on the validity of safety evaluation has been extremely limited. No evidence-based gold standard exists. Clinical trials remain the best design to establish causality, but sample size limitations prevent the detection of infrequent, though serious, adverse events. Other designs, such as cohort and case-control studies, and approaches, such-as mining of large databases, must be considered. Conclusions: The current lack of methodological standardization across studies prevents generalizations and meta-analyses. Because the issues relevant to drug safety are diverse, a variety of methodological approaches and instruments are needed. It is, however, possible to adopt standard basic definitions of adverse events, degree of severity, ascertainment methods, and recording procedures, as a common core, to which more specific assessment instruments can be added. Systematic empirical testing and validation of safety methodology is needed.
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