Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry

Edoardo Spina Gianluca Trifi rò Editors Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry Edoardo Spina • Gianluca Trifi rò Editors Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry Editors Edoardo Spina Gianluca Trifi rò Department of Clinical and Experimental Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Medicine University of Messina University of Messina Messina Messina Italy Italy ISBN 978-3-319-24739-7 ISBN 978-3-319-24741-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24741-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015957257 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Adis is a brand of Springer Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com) Preface and Ac knowledgements Primum non nocere (fi rst, do no harm) is a guiding principle for all physicians including psychiatrists that, whatever the intervention or procedure, the patient’s well-being is the primary consideration. Rational use of psychotropic drugs may improve the quality of life and the func- tional status of patients with neuropsychiatric diseases while minimizing adverse effects potentially associated to the pharmacological treatment. However, currently, psychotropic medications are often misused and overused, especially in elderly patients; thus, exposing this frail population to unmotivated and potentially life- threatening risks. In general terms, it is well known that premarketing randomized clinical trials are designed to investigate, primarily, the effi cacy of the drugs and may only partly explore the drug safety profi le. Therefore, the risks associated with newly marketed drugs can be properly quantifi ed and characterized only after their use in clinical practice (i.e. post-marketing phase). For this reason, post-marketing pharmacovigilance monitoring has been long recognized as the last phase of drug development. Pharmacovigilance is a discipline that entails both cultural and scientifi c aspects. On one hand, traditional pharmacovigilance activities based on spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions from patients and healthcare professionals are essen- tial to increase the awareness of prescribers and users about the potential risks associated to exposure to medicines. On the other, in the last few years, pharmacovigilance as a science is rapidly evolving towards a more proactive approach in terms of emerging safety issues detection, strengthening and validation, thanks to innovative methodologies that have been developed in the context of outstanding initiatives, such as US FDA-endorsed Sentinel and European FP-7- funded EU-ADR and IMI-funded PROTECT. It is nowadays well acknowledged that continuously growing availability of databases with longitudinal electronic health records of millions of persons world- wide offers the opportunity to get better insight, rapidly and cheaply, into real-life psychotropic drug use and the benefi t-risk profi le of those medications in the general population, as well as in specifi c frail categories of patients such as older people, children and pregnant women. v vi Preface and Acknowledgements A number of large-size observational studies have been conducted in several continents in the last decades, exploring and confi rming the associations of potentially serious safety outcomes and use of drugs commonly prescribed in psychiatry, ranging from risk of hemorrhagic stroke and use of antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, to risk of all-cause mortality and use of both atypical and conventional antipsychotics in older people with dementia, to risk of falls and benzodiazepine use and so on. Those data sources can complement the traditional spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting system in drug safety signal management, also regarding psychotropic drugs. Knowledge in pharmacovigilance is dynamic and requires rapid (re)assessment of risk associated with currently marketed drugs, including psychotropic drugs. This book presents a timely overview of updated evidence about the safety profi le of drugs that are commonly used in psychiatry, as well as of established and advanced methodologies that have been used up to now for the conduct of post- marketing pharmacovigilance studies. We gratefully acknowledge the continuous advice from Prof. Bruno Stricker (Erasmus University Medical Center of Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Prof. Achille P. Caputi (University of Messina, Italy), who inspired relevant parts of this book through their innovative research in the fi eld of pharmacovigilance. Messina , Italy Gianluca Trifi rò Messina , Italy Edoardo Spina Contents Part I General Aspects of Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry 1 Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry: An Introduction . 3 Edoardo Spina , Gianluca Trifi rò , and Achille Patrizio Caputi 2 Adverse Drug Reactions: Defi nitions, Classifi cations and Regulatory Aspects. 9 Paola Maria Cutroneo and Giovanni Polimeni 3 Methods for the Post-Marketing Monitoring of Psychotropics Safety: Interests and Pitfalls . 27 Francesco Salvo , Annie Fourrier-Réglat , Nicholas Moore , Bernard Bégaud , and Antoine Pariente 4 Contribution of UK Prescription-Based Event Monitoring Methods in the Pharmacovigilance of Psychotropic Medications. 45 Deborah Layton 5 The Role of Healthcare Databases in Pharmacovigilance of Psychotropic Drugs . 73 Gianluca Trifi rò and Janet Sultana 6 Monitoring of Plasma Concentrations of Psychotropic Drugs in Pharmacovigilance . 95 Christoph Hiemke and Ekkehard Haen 7 The Role of Pharmacogenetics in Pharmacovigilance of Psychotropic Drugs . 121 Alessandro Serretti and Chiara Fabbri Part II Pharmacovigilance of Specifi c Psychotropic Drug Classes 8 Safety and Tolerability of Antidepressants . 149 Chris Manson , Robert Gordon , and David Baldwin vii viii Contents 9 Safety and Tolerability of Antipsychotics . 167 Michael W. Jann and William K. Kennedy 10 Safety and Tolerability of Anxiolytics/Sedative-Hypnotics . 191 Vincenzo Arcoraci and Edoardo Spina 11 Safety and Tolerability of Mood Stabilisers . 209 Michele Fabrazzo and Alfonso Tortorella 12 Safety and Tolerability of Medications for ADHD . 233 Antonio Clavenna and Maurizio Bonati Part III Pharmacovigilance of Psychotropic Drugs in Special Populations 13 Safety of Psychotropic Drugs in Children and Adolescents. 257 Florentia Kaguelidou and Eric Acquaviva 14 Safety of Psychotropic Drugs in the Elderly . 285 Kate L. Lapane , Anne Hume , Christine Ulbricht , and Giovanni Gambassi 15 Safety of Psychotropic Drugs in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding. 299 Olav Spigset and Hedvig Nordeng List of Contributors Editors Edoardo Spina , MD, PhD Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , University of Messina , Messina , Italy Gianluca Trifi rò , MD, PhD Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , University of Messina , Messina , Italy Contributors Eric Acquaviva Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Robert Debré University Hospital , Paris , France Vincenzo Arcoraci Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , University of Messina , Messina , Italy David Baldwin University Department of Psychiatry, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Academic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton , Southampton , UK Bernard Bégaud Department of Medical Pharmacology , INSERM U657, Bordeaux University , Bordeaux , France University Hospital Centre de Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France Maurizio Bonati Department of Public Health, Laboratory for Mother and Child Health, Mario Negri IRCCS Institute of Pharmacological Research , Milan , Italy Achille Patrizio Caputi Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , University of Messina , Messina , Italy ix x List of Contributors Antonio Clavenna Department of Public Health, Laboratory for Mother and Child Health, Mario Negri IRCCS Institute of Pharmacological Research , Milan , Italy Paola Maria Cutroneo Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine , University of Messina , Messina , Italy Chiara Fabbri Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences , University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy Michele Fabrazzo Department of Psychiatry , University of Naples SUN , Naples , Italy Annie Fourrier-Réglat Department of Medical Pharmacology , INSERM U657, Bordeaux University , Bordeaux , France University Hospital Centre de Bordeaux , Bordeaux , France Giovanni Gambassi Department

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