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
Research projects
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Causality, complexity and evidence in pharmacovigilance
Detecting unknown adverse reactions of marketed medicines is challenging and needs improved methods to assess causality, as well as improved quality of clinical observations.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Leblanc, Marissa Erin; Williamson, Jon; De Pretis, Francesco; Landes, Jurgen;
Rocca, Elena
(2024).
Individual consent in cluster randomised trials for non-pharmaceutical interventions: going beyond the Ottawa statement.
Critical Public Health.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2024.2338074
Anjum, Rani Lill;
Rocca, Elena
(2024).
A Dispositional Account of Causation: Implications for the Biological Sciences.
Yafeng, Shan; Shan, Yafeng (Ed.).
Alternative Approaches to Causation: Beyond Difference-Making and Mechanism. p. 95-121.
Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/978019
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.
8 p.
Pharmaceutical Medicine.
Vol. 36.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-022-00429-9
Pérez-González, Saul;
Rocca, Elena
(2022).
Evidence of Biological Mechanisms and Health Predictions: An Insight into Clinical Reasoning.
16 p.
Perspectives in biology and medicine.
Vol. 65.
https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2022.0005
Rocca, Elena
; Grundmark, Birgitta
(2021).
Monitoring the Safety of Medicines and Vaccines in Times of Pandemic: Practical, Conceptual, and Ethical Challenges in Pharmacovigilance.
19 p.
Argumenta.
Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202113.roc
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.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-021-01091-x
Anjum, Rani Lill; Copeland, Samantha Marie;
Rocca, Elena
(2020).
Introduction: Why Is Philosophy Relevant for Clinical Practice?.
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. p. 3-11.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41239-5_1
Rocca, Elena
; Anjum, Rani Lill; Mumford, Stephen D
(2020).
Causal Insights from Failure: Post-Marketing Risk Assessment of Drugs as a Way to Uncover Causal Mechanisms.
LaCaze, Adam; Osimani, Barbara (Ed.).
Uncertainty in Pharmacology. Epistemology, Methods and Decisions.. p. 39-57.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29179-2_2
Rocca, Elena
; Anjum, Rani Lill
(2020).
Causal evidence and dispositions in medicine and public health.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).
Vol. 17.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17061813
Anjum, Rani Lill; Copeland, Samantha Marie;
Rocca, Elena
(2020).
Rethinking Causality, Complexity and Evidence for the Unique Patient. A CauseHealth Resource for Healthcare Professionals and the Clinical Encounter.
ISBN: 978-3-030-41239-5.
241 p.
Springer Nature.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-4