Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) was established to promote patient safety by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India in July 2010. It covers various medical hospitals/institutes and National Health Programmes across the country. India is coordinating with various national and international programmes to be a part of international drug monitoring and to monitor...

Objectives: As an ever growing scale people are using newer and more effective drugs for various medical conditions. Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are preventable if the health-care professional pays close attention to the details of the adverse effects, following a drug administration. Awareness about ADRs can decrease the irrational use of drugs. Hence, there is an urgent need to create aware...

Most countries have developed information systems to report drug adverse effects. However, as in other domains where systematic reviews are needed, there is little guidance on how systematic documentation of drug adverse effects should be performed. The objective of the VigiTermes project is to develop a platform to improve documentation of pharmacovigilance case reports for the pharmaceutical ...

Herbal formulations being widely accepted therapeutic agents as antidiabetics, antiarthritics, hepatoprotectives, cough remedies, memory enhancers, and adaptogens. The commonest myth regarding herbal medicines is that these medicines are completely safe, and can therefore be safely consumed by the patient on his/her own, without a physician's prescription. This belief has led to large-scale sel...

INTRODUCTION The aims of this study were to describe the reports of suspected adverse events due to rotavirus vaccines, and assess the reporting sensitivity for intussusception. MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive study performed using the reports of suspected adverse events following rotavirus vaccination in infants aged less than 10 months, as registered in the Pharmacovigilance Centre of the ...

Introduction: Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions is the basis pharmacovigilance, main objective which to ensure safe use drugs, particularly cytotoxics, through continuous monitoring events caused by them. The aims this study were investigate perception nurses towards and identify reasons for under-reporting cytotoxic drugs in Morocco. Methods: Individual semi-structured interviews...

Pharmacovigilance is an essential process when dealing with the medicines. It one of basic roles community pharmacist. This role not found in practice. Due to lacking this role, monitoring adverse drug reactions and awareness report them missed society. However, no significant data has been published exhibit pharmacists Pharmacovigilance. study was aimed help stowing pharmacist Pakistan, give o...

Article history: Received on: 29/12/2015 Revised on: 21/01/2016 Accepted on: 05/02/2016 Available online: 28/05/2016 Adverse drug reaction is defined by the WHO as a response to a medicinal product which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis, therapy of disease or for the modification of physiologic function. The term Pharmacovigila...

OBJECTIVE It is vital to detect the full safety profile of a drug throughout its market life. Current pharmacovigilance systems still have substantial limitations, however. The objective of our work is to demonstrate the feasibility of using natural language processing (NLP), the comprehensive Electronic Health Record (EHR), and association statistics for pharmacovigilance purposes. DESIGN Narr...

The term pharmacovigilance means all scientific and data gathering activities relating to the detection, assessment, and understanding of adverse events. These activities are undertaken with the goal of identifying adverse events and understanding, their nature, frequency, and potential risk factors [1]. In developing countries there is a gap of information on data outcome of adverse reaction o...