Monitoring safety of biological products, drugs, and devices in healthcare is a priority for inventors, prescribers, regulatory authorities and of course patients. Safety data are collected and analyzed throughout product development and assessed prior to approval for commercial use.

In this episode, Dr. Joseph (Joe) Tonning medical and pharmaceutical consultant at ThinkTrends and practicing physician at Your Health Concierge educates us about signal detection, safety surveillance and analytic methods to identify potential risks. The statistical issue 'the masking effect' is discussed and what can be done to deal with it.