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Feb 25
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Ask us anything about… disproportionalit...

Uppsala Monitoring Centre
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Send a text message to the show! Disproportionality analysis is the go-to method for signal detection in pharmacovigilance, but it is also easy to misuse and misinterpret. For our next episode, we will be chatting to pharmacovigilance scientists Michele Fusaroli from Uppsala Monitoring Centre and Eugene van Puijenbroek from the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance ... Show More
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