This paper reviews methods that can be used to assess the impact …

• Abstract
• Background
• Making causal inferences
• Causal inferences from observational data
• Making causal inferences about medicine use and health outcomes
• Casual inferences from individual data on health outcomes and medicine use
• Causal inferences from aggregate data on health outcomes and medicine use
• Assessing relationships between aggregate medicine use and health outcomes
• Alternative explanations of improved population health outcomes
• Assessing the plausibility of alternative explanations
• Explaining a lack of improvement in population health outcomes
• Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• References
• Table

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Abbreviations

- Assessing the impact of prescribed medicines on health outcomes

ITS – interrupted time series

NSAID – non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug

RCT – randomised controlled trial