BACKGROUND Patients have been allowed to report adverse drug reactions (ADRs) directly to the government in some countries, which would contribute to pharmacovigilance. OBJECTIVE We started a pilot study to determine whether web-based patient ADR reporting would work in Japan. This article aims to describe the characteristics of the patient reporters, and to clarify patient views and experien...

A scientific model to support excellence in pharmacovigilance has been developed from first principles by brainstorming sessions and discussions with experts in the field. The model represents a long-term vision of how pharmacovigilance could be conducted in the future. So far it has been developed without any consideration of constraints such as resources or the need for legislative change. Al...

Objective: The present study was designed to assess the perception, need and barriers of PV ADRs reporting in hospital settings Karachi, Pakistan.
 Methods: A cross-sectional survey conducted from October 2019 February 2020 by random sampling healthcare professionals including physicians, pharmacists nurses. Questionnaire distributed 525 participants (n=175 each group) being serving for on...

Title: Improved drug safety through intensive pharmacovigilance in hospitalized pediatric patients Authors: Alan Vazquez-Alvarez ([email protected]) Lorena Brennan-Bourdon ([email protected]) Ana Rincón-Sánchez ([email protected]) Maria Islas-Carbajal ([email protected]) Selene Huerta-Olvera ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 25 Nov 2017 Author’s ...

The identification of semantically similar linguistic expressions despite their formal difference is an important task within NLP applications (information retrieval and extraction, terminology structuring...) We propose to detect the semantic relatedness between biomedical terms from the pharmacovigilance area. Two approaches are exploited: semantic distance within structured resources and ter...

According to National Survey, nearly 80 million of Indians reside in rural areas, consuming medicines for various diseases and data from them are absolutely essential to make Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) penultimate. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) extended this service. ICMR-based rural pharmacovigilance comprises allocating funds to ADR monitoring centers (AMCs) and e...

Pharmacovigilance is instrumental in helping to ensure patient safety for both newly released drugs and those that are well established in the market. However, while pharmacovigilance procedures are strictly regulated in the clinical trial setting, post-marketing adverse event reporting is not well implemented or enforced. As such, the underreporting of adverse events, in relation to drugs that...

The pharmacovigilance of vaccines is defined as the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding, prevention and communication of adverse events of immunization, or any other vaccine, or issues related with immunization. The strengthening of pharmacovigilance is very important in every country because it helps professional health care workers to avoid the problems...

Cimicifuga racemosa and Hepatitis Alfredo Vannacci, MD, PhD, is a medical consultant at the Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance and a researcher in the Department of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, Florence, Italy. Francesco Lapi, PharmD, PhD, is a research consultant at the Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance, a research fellow in the Department of Preclinical and Clinic...

Veterinary pharmacovigilance studies the adverse effects of veterinary medicinal products after they have been placed on the market. Information about suspected lack of efficacy, potential environmental risks as well as the validity of the drug withdrawal times are also taken into account. In France, information provided to the national veterinary pharmacovigilance system, which was formally es...