An Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) is still a challenge in modern healthcare, increasing complication of therapeutics, an elderly populace and multimorbidity. Pharmacovigilance the science activities relating to detection, assessment, understanding prevention adverse effects or any other medicine/vaccine related problem. This article having objective evaluating pharmacist perception about ADRs mon...

Introduction: Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reaction (ADR) is the main stay pharmacovigilance. However major limitation this method underreporting as it depends entirely on participation health care professional. This study aimed to identify factors that discourage ADR and possible ways improve reporting. Methods: a questionnaire based cross-sectional descriptive employed at tertiary le...

Thousands of samples for pharmacogenetic tests have been analysed in our laboratory since its establishment. In this article we describe some of the most interesting cases of CYP poor metabolisers associated with adverse reactions to psychotropic drugs. Prevention of disease/illness, including Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR), is an aim of modern medicine. Scientific data supports the fact that eval...

Objective: There are various adverse drug reaction (ADR) associated with pharmacological therapy that differ in clinical presentation, prognosis and therapy. Among these, cutaneous eruptions are the most common type of all ADRs.Theclinical presentation of cutaneous drug eruptions ranges from common transient and benign erythema to the most severe forms such as Steven-Johnson syndrome (SJS), Tox...

Objective: To assess the frequency and type of adverse drug reactions (ADR) that necessitated modification of multi-drug therapy (MDT) in Hansen’s disease, with emphasis to find out the interval between initiation of MDT and the occurrence of ADR. Design: A retrospective analysis of case records of patients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease (HD) and registered for MDT in a tertiary care instituti...

• ADR monitoring in China, despite a late start, has been rapidly developed with a new monitoring system established since 2002. • Problems with China’s ADR monitoring system have been reported, such as poor quality of reports, narrow coverage of monitoring network, and lack of risk warning and controlling measures.1 • The scientific evaluation mechanism for China’s ADR monitoring and reporting...

1. Attitudes of doctors to the Committee on Safety of Medicines' (CSM) adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting scheme were investigated in order to assess their understanding of the purposes of the scheme and to identify reasons for failing to report suspected adverse drug reactions. 2. A postal questionnaire and letter of invitation were sent to 500 doctors who were randomly selected from the 19...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to determine current status of knowledge, practices, and attitudes towards adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among private practitioners in Klang region of Malaysia. METHODS A total of 238 private practitioners in Klang valley were distributed a questionnaire consisting of seven questions, two knowledge-related, two practice-related and three attitude-related. E...

background: adverse drug reactions (adrs) are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality and contribute to excessive health care costs. detection and reporting of adrs could decrease these consequences. the present study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of pharmacy students towards adrs monitoring and reporting. methods: a questionnaire was prepared to...

NOTE. Data from clinical trials are from [3]; data from postmarketing observationalstudies (PMOS) are on file. ADR, adverse drug reaction. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Vladimir Krčmery, St. Elizabeth and University of Trnava Cancer Institute, Heyduková 10, 812 50 Bratislava, Slovak Republic ([email protected]). Clinical Infectious Diseases 2001; 32:1110–2 2001 by the Infectious Diseases Soci...