Adverse drug reactions are responsible for mortality and morbidity during medical care. Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reaction from treating physician plays an important role in assessing the benefit and risk profile of marketed drugs periodically.To assess the knowledge and attitude about adverse drug reaction reporting among the health care professionals working in a tertiary care hos...

Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) is the leading cause for the hospital administration, morbidity, and mortality as per the established data. Present pharmacovigilance program of India is performing well for strengthening ADR reporting system. The current project is aimed to study knowledge, attitude and practices of health care professionals and key stakeholders for Adverse Drug reaction reporting ...

Atenolol, a cardio selective beta-adrenergic blocker, frequently prescribed in various cardiac ailments, has not been thoroughly investigated for its adverse reaction profile in Indian patient. The present ADR monitoring study which was open, prospective and collaborative was therefore planned. A total of 440 patients with various heart disease were enrolled after a strict inclusion and exclusi...

Rauwolfia serpentina is a safe and effective treatment for hypertension. The objective of this case report to enhance awareness medical practitioners concerning induced Parkinsonism, because recognition appropriate management can enable proper prevent serious adverse outcomes. We patient, who known Systemic hypertension10 years ago was taking 5 drops syrup, caused the patient suffer with rigidi...

background: the reporting of adverse drug reactions (adrs) by nurses in hospitals is very important.aims: this study was aimed at investigating the impact of an educational intervention to improve adr reporting and whethertrained nurses had better knowledge, attitude, and practice toward adr reporting. materials and methods: a total of 300 nurses in a tertiary care teaching hospital in tehran, ...

background: s. alopecuroides, z. officinale and m. officinalis are used traditionally in the treatment of pain. objective: to evaluate the plants effects in the rat formalin test and their activity on the opioid receptors. methods: each rat was placed individually in a cage for 30 min to get acclimated. then 0.05 ml of 10% formalin was injected subcutaneously into the dorsal surface of the righ...

thrombolytic agents are among the medications that are used widely for the treatment of thromboembolic disorders and myocardial infarction (mi). despite the world-wide availability of newer specific agents, streptokinase (sk) is still the most frequently used medication from this class in iran. hence we conducted this study to review the adverse reactions to this medication which were reported ...

Delivering safe and effective therapeutic treatment to patients is one of the grand challenges in modern medicine. However, drug safety research has been progressing slowly in recent years, compared to other fields such as biotechnologies and precision medicine, due to the mechanistic complexity of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). To fill up this gap, we develop a new database, the Adverse Drug R...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting is the most widely used and cost effective method of monitoring the safety of drugs. This method is heavily afflicted by underreporting by healthcare professionals. The study aims at assessing adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting rate by doctors, knowledge of the reporting system and attitudes to SADR in the Greater Accra region. METHODS...