the University of Manchester
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Dr. Teng-Chou Chen has a hospital pharmacy background and his research expertise is in pharmacoepidemiology, drug utilisation research, evidence based medicine and health economic evaluation. He was involved in a global opioid utilisation research in the Drug Utilisation Research Special Interest Group, which aims to identify key factors influencing quality use of opioids. He used both electronic health records from individual patients and aggregate level datasets and statistics in different countries to quantify the association between opioid utilisation and opioid relate harms. He also involved in Global Psoriasis Atlas, an international project which aims to provide information about the epidemiology and disease burden of psoriasis worldwide.