PEM in New Zealand
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In New Zealand (NZ), prescription-event monitoring (PEM) methodology is the main tool of the Intensive Medicines Monitoring Programme (IMMP), a national unit that performs proactive post-marketing surveillance on selected medicines.
PEM in New Zealand
INTRODUCTION
In
New Zealand (NZ), prescription-event monitoring (PEM) methodology is the main
tool of the Inten-sive Medicines Monitoring Programme (IMMP), a national unit
that performs proactive post-marketing surveillance on selected medicines. As
outlined in Chapter 24, PEM studies are prospective observa-tional cohort
studies, in which cohorts are established from prescription data and adverse
events are solicited from prescribers using follow-up questionnaires. This
chapter describes how the IMMP has developed and enhanced PEM in NZ and
discusses some of the differences to PEM in the United Kingdom.
