Background The development of behavioral addictions (BAs) in association with dopamine agonists (DAs, commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease) has been reported. A recent report presented data that these associations are evident in the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), a database containing information on adverse drug event and medication error r...

Purpose: To analyse the safety of oral clemastine marketed in Poland based on spontaneous adverse event reporting system. Methods: We analyzed sales volume and data obtained from the monitoring of spontaneous reports on the adverse effects of Clemastinum Hasco tablets (1.0 mg) and Clemastinum Hasco syrup (0.1 mg/mL) received by the manufacturer (PPF HASCO-LEK S.A. Wroclaw, Poland) and National ...

The potential reproductive toxicity of mercury vapour was investigated by comparing the rate of spontaneous abortions among the wives of 152 workers occupationally exposed to mercury vapour with the rate among the wives of 374 controls in the same plant. The results indicate an increase in the rate of spontaneous abortions with an increasing concentration of mercury in the fathers' urine before...

background: the most common types of medical error are medication errors (mes) which defined as any preventable event that may be caused by an inappropriate medication usage and lead to an adverse drug reaction (adr) event in patients. in recent years, different approaches have been proposed to reduce mes, one of which is reporting adrs. the present study was designed to assess the knowledge, a...

medication errors (mes) are among the most prevalent health errors threatening patients’ safety and are regarded as an index for determining patients’ well-being in hospitals. the purpose of this study was to explore the me reporting rate and causes of underreporting among the nursing students in the city of kerman. in this cross-sectional study, 90 nursing students in the seventh and eighth se...

BACKGROUND Numerous reporting biases have been known to affect spontaneous reporting databases. The Weber effect, which constitutes a peak in adverse event (AE) reporting of a drug at the end of second year after regulatory approval followed by a continuous decline thereafter, has been considered an important bias for a long time. The existence of this bias in AE reporting of oncology drugs rem...