New Strategy for Pharmacovigilance Using Data-Mining Methods in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency

Abstract

During FY 2004 through 2008, as one of the projects in the first medium term plan, the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency(PMDA)had been engaged in the research and establishment of data mining method as an operational support tool to assist staff in charge of post-marketing safety measures, with the goal to implement this tool in April 2009.
This article was written with objective to demonstrate the current operation process of data mining in PMDA.