The EUROmediCAT Network partipated in the ConcePTION Project: Building an ecosystem for better monitoring and communicating safety of medicines use in pregnancy and breastfeeding: validated and regulatory endorsed workflows for fast, optimised evidence generation.

This project was funded by the EU Innovative Medicines Initiative and started in April 2019, running until 2024. EUROmediCAT conducted Workpackage 1: Secondary use of existing data sources for studies of medication safety in pregnancy. This involved the use of registries and healthcare databases.

Five Demonstration Projects were carried out, in the therapeutic areas of neuropathic pain, depression, multiple sclerosis, SLE, migraine and breast cancer. These projects were chosen to cover a wide range of methodological issues, as well as meeting important evidence gaps.

Glossary of Terms used in Pharmacolvigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology

A plethora of terms (sometimes confusing) are deployed in pharmacolvigilance and medicines management research and practice. This glossary aims to clarify terminology, and its provenance, as a component of the quality initiative in Conception and other studies. Whilst some definitions are taken from official sources, others, absent in these sources, are drawn from contemporary literature with references. We hope readers will find this useful.

Working Definitions & Glossary for WP1 of IMI Conception