About
Specializes in issues related to responsible knowledge-based decision-making with focus on risk and safety of medicines, both from a practical, methodological and philosophical perspective. Works interdisciplinary between scientific evidence, practice, policy and philosophy. Research includes causality assessment in drug safety, clinical reasoning, analysis of expert disagreement.
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Rocca, Elena; Pérez-González, Saul (2023). Evaluating the relevance of epidemiological studies for the single patient: How can evidence of mechanisms help?. Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice .
Anjum, Rani Lill; Chandler, Rebecca; Rocca, Elena (2022). Dispositions and Causality Assessment in Pharmacovigilance: Proposing the Dx3 Approach for Assessing Causality with Small Data Sets. Pharmaceutical Medicine . Vol. 36.
Pérez-González, Saul; Rocca, Elena (2022). Evidence of Biological Mechanisms and Health Predictions: An Insight into Clinical Reasoning. Perspectives in biology and medicine . Vol. 65.
Rocca, Elena; Grundmark, Birgitta (2021). Monitoring the Safety of Medicines and Vaccines in Times of Pandemic: Practical, Conceptual, and Ethical Challenges in Pharmacovigilance. Argumenta. Vol. 7.
Rocca, Elena; Gauffin, Oskar; Savage, Ruth; Vidlin, Sara Hedfors; Grundmark, Birgitta (2021). Remdesivir in the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Spontaneous Reports in VigiBase During 2020. Drug Safety . Vol. 44.
Rocca, Elena; Anjum, Rani Lill
(2020).
Erice Call for Change: Utilising Patient Experiences to Enhance the Quality and Safety of Healthcare.
Drug Safety
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Vol. 43.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2735004
Rocca, Elena
(2020).
Probability for the Clinical Encounter.
Anjum, Rani Lill; Copeland, Samantha Marie; Rocca, Elena (Ed.).
Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient. A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter. Chapter 3. p. 37-54.
Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...
Andersen, Fredrik; Rocca, Elena
(2020).
Underdetermination and evidence-based policy.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
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Vol. 84.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2737150
Rocca, Elena; Anjum, Rani Lill
(2020).
Complexity, Reductionism and the Biomedical Model.
Anjum, Rani Lill; Copeland, Samantha Marie; Rocca, Elena (Ed.).
Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient. A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter. Chapter 5. p. 75-94.
Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...
Anjum, Rani Lill; Rocca, Elena
(2020).
When a Cause Cannot Be Found.
Anjum, Rani Lill; Copeland, Samantha Marie; Rocca, Elena (Ed.).
Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient. A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter. Chapter 4. p. 55-74.
Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-03...