Abstract In the elderly, polypharmacy is a common problem, and drug interactions adverse reactions (ADR) have been linked to considerable harm in several population-based studies. However, when compared with other medical disciplines, studies elderly cancer patients are lacking oncology India particular. Additionally, intake of multiple drugs and, at times, potentially inappropriate medications...

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...

Objectives: To assess adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reporting and identify factors to improve ADR among community pharmacists in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.Design: A quantitative cross-sectional study.Setting: Community pharmacies Ghana.Participants: We randomly selected 210 from a list Accra, Ghana. All participants had been practicing past one year, with this study being conducted June...

Adverse drug reaction and drug interactions represent negative consequences of pharmacotherapy. A thorough knowledge of how the adverse reactions and drug interactions occur will aid in our ability to provide the best patient care possible. Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions are defined and mechanisms of their occurrence are discussed; ways to identify, assess, manage, and report thes...

Adverse drug events impose a large cost on the society in terms of lives and health care costs. In this article, we propose an information technology architecture for enabling the monitoring of adverse drug events in an outpatient setting as a part of the post marketing surveillance program. The proposed system architecture enables the development of a Web-based drug effectiveness reporting and...

Background: Cutaneous drug reaction seems to be relatively common The aim of the study was to recognize offending drugs, evaluate patients' characteristics and educate the patients to avoid selfadministration and re-administration of drugs. Methods: We retrospectively and prospectively analyzed data from Sina hospital in Tabriz (2000-2005) to determine the number of hospitalizations and visits ...

The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), co-managed by CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is the national postmarketing safety monitoring system that accepts reports about adverse events that occur after administration of U.S.-licensed vaccines (1,2). On June 30, 2017, CDC and FDA implemented a revised reporting form and a new process for submitting reports to VAERS. Per...

The objective of this study was to determine whether the Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) data set could serve as the basis of automated electronic health record (EHR) monitoring for the adverse drug reaction (ADR) subset of adverse drug events. We retrospectively collected EHR entries for 71 909 pediatric inpatient visits at Cincinnati Children's Hospital M...