World OF DRUG SAFETY MODULE

Other public sources of healthcare data OSE uses include the:

• U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which includes the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which maintains a network of hospitals and electronic medical records.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a federal agency that is interested in patient outcomes from medical care and what interventions can promote the best medical practices.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has a network of professors, researchers and practitioners interested in drug-induced liver injury. Over the last 20 years, severe liver injuries are one of the most common reasons a drug is pulled from the market.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a very strong epidemiology program that can detect adverse events in emergency rooms around the country, when the adverse drug event is determined by the physician to be actually caused by the drug. Using CDC data, OSE can see how an adverse drug event moves through the population.