BACKGROUND Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are a major public health problem. Prompt reporting of suspected ADRs is fundamental in the post-marketing surveillance of medicines and helps in ensuring medicine safety. However, fewer ADRs are reported in general and in particular by community pharmacists. There is limited knowledge about the factors which are preventing community pharmacists in the U...

BACKGROUND An important challenge to spontaneous reporting system is underreporting. The sensitization and involvement of undergraduate medical students can reduce underreporting in pharmacovigilance program. OBJECTIVE To analyze the clinical characteristics and reporting quality of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) by undergraduate medical students in comparison with physicians' reporting. MET...

Introduction: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) Reporting is provides safety and Improves strength of Drug adverse reaction to the Drug. Such ADR reporting programs encourage surveillance for ADRs, promote the reporting of ADRs and stimulate the education of health professionals regarding potential ADRs. Objective: ADR monitoring is an important part of post marketing surveillance which helps in ge...

UNLABELLED AIM The purpose of our study was to investigate and to assess the perceptions of Romanian doctors towards adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reporting. METHOD A questionnaire with 20 items accompanied by a letter presenting the study was circulated using Internet and face to face interviews to 532 doctors in Bucharest and two neighboring regions from Romania (Muntenia and Oltenia). ...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: pharmacovigilance assesses the safety profile of drugs. its main aim is the increase of spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (adrs).the italian drug agency (aifa; agenzia italianadel farmaco) is financing several projects to the aim of increasing reporting, and in calabria a pharmacovigilance informa...

Pharmacists in organized health care systems should develop comprehensive, ongoing programs for monitoring and reporting adverse drug reactions (ADRs). It is the pharmacist’s responsibility and professional obligation to report any suspected ADRs. ADR-monitoring and reporting programs encourage ADR surveillance, facilitate ADR documentation, promote the reporting of ADRs, provide a mechanism fo...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have a significant impact on human health and health care costs. The aims of our study were to determine the profile of rheumatology patients willing to report ADRs and to identify bias in such a reporting system. METHODS Semi-intensive ADRs reporting system was used in our study. Patients willing to participate (N=261) completed the questionnaire desi...

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: Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) underreporting is a serious drawback of the pharmacovigilance system. Spontaneous reporting of ADRs is a valid instrument to enhance pharmacovigilance. Objectives: To avoid prescribing again to patients the drug that caused them the ADRs, to evaluate spontaneous reporting of ADRs by patients to their General Practitioner (GP); to investigate the most in...

OBJECTIVES To measure awareness about adverse drug reaction (ADRs) reporting among doctors, pharmacists and nurses and to determine reasons of ADRs under-reporting in Pakistan. METHODS In present study, a self-administered questionnaire was used to measure the awareness level about ADRs reporting among health care professionals (HCPs) of Pakistan. This was a cross sectional study. RESULTS O...