EMA study on prescribing of testosterone in the primary care setting

Study type

• Study topic:
  Human medicinal product
• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Drug utilisation
• Data collection methods:
  Secondary use of data

Study drug and medical condition

• Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) code:
  (G03BA03) testosterone

  testosterone

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  All patients recorded in the UK IMS database who had received a prescription of testosterone
• Age groups:
  Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)

  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  5686400

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  To estimate the prevalence of testosterone use in males from 1990 to Q1 2013.
• Data analysis plan:
  This study is a descriptive analysis of data from IMS Health. No sample size or statistical precision calculation is performed. Data extraction and management is performed in IMS Disease Analyser, analyses are performed using Stata 11.2.