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OBJECTIVE To detect the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) through spontaneous reporting system in IGGMC&H, Nagpur and analyze them using World Health Organization (WHO) assessment scales. METHOD An observational, prospective study was conducted based on ADRs reported between 1st June '05 to 31st May '09 to the ADR reporting unit of the hospital. The ADRs reported by spontaneous reporting system w...

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality and contribute to the incidence of adverse events, resulting in increased healthcare costs. Healthcare providers need to understand their role and responsibility in the detection, management, documentation, and reporting of ADRs, all essential activities for optimizing patient safety. The purpose of this article is...

AIM To study the pattern of various adverse drug reactions (ADRs) occurring in children attending the Department of Pediatrics, SMGS Hospital, Jammu over 1 year. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a prospective study, with study population of patients attending Department of Pediatrics over a period of 1 year. A structured format was used to enroll the participants. A pilot study was conducted to ...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are important causes of morbidities. Voluntary reporting of ADR is important in safety surveillance of medicines already in the market. This study was, therefore, conducted to appraise the current documentation of ADR in Sokoto, to analyze the extent to which clinicians appreciate factors that could affect reporting ADRs. MATERIALS AND METHO...

Background and Objectives: Pharmacovigilance is central to the control of the menace of adverse drugs reactions. Despite the fact that development of policy and practice framework to improve patients’ safety partly rely on availability of authentic data on pharmacovigilance activities, knowledge about pharmacovigilance activities among healthcare professionals in Nigeria is limited. To help fil...

conclusions pain management in patients with liver dysfunction is always challenging to physicians because of the adverse reactions of drugs, especially opioids. opioids should be used cautiously since they can cause sedation, constipation and sudden encephalopathy effects. since the clearance of these drugs in patients with hepatic insufficiency is decreased, the initial dose must be decreased...

BACKGROUND The problem of drug safety will never disappear as new drugs are delivered in increasing numbers. They have high biological activity and adverse drug reactions (ADR) [1]. Currently, adverse drug reactions are the fourth leading cause of death for patients.There are databases of ADRs (Vigibase, Eudravigilance), but we know that ADR manifestations may vary in different countries and re...

This paper summarizes the first year of activity of the Ceará State Pharmacovigilance System (SIFACE) as a strategy to discuss practical and methodological problems related to developing pharmacovigilance in Brazil. Siface is being structured by the Group for the Prevention of Improper Use of Pharmaceuticals (GPUIM), based on hospital pharmacies. A total of 63 reports (119 suspected adverse dru...