background : following establishment of iranian adverse drug reaction (adr) monitoring  center  in  1997, adr  committees  were  established  in  all  hospitals  of mazandaran province of iran. clinical pharmacists from mazandaran university of medical sciences have been involved with these committees since 2007. the aim of this study was to compare the results of the pharmacovigilance system b...

detection of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals provides an important measure of the burden of drug related morbidity on the healthcare system. spontaneous reporting of adrs is scare and several obstacles to such reporting have been identified formerly. this study aimed to determine the role of clinical pharmacy residents in adr reporting within a hospital setting.clinical pharmacy resi...

the monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals aims to identify and quantify the risks associated with the use of drugs. the present study was performed to characterize the rate and the pattern of adrs, due to cardiovascular drugs and anticoagulants, in a tertiary care teaching hospital. for this purpose, all the patients treated with cardiovascular drugs and anticoa...

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...

to inform healthcare professionals of a rare serious reaction leading to leg amputation following intramuscular injection of iron dextran and report comments for preventing such reactions.a case of leg amputation following intramuscular injection of iron dextran reported to iranian pharmacovigilance center was reviewed. patient and reaction data was collected by assessing the reported yellow ca...

detection of probable harmful consequences arised from the usage of pharmaceutical products requires decisive, continuous and close monitoring by medical staff whom should have knowledge of adverse drug reactions and they should also have to report any suspected instances, when any kind of adverse drug reactions have been observed. this study has been carried out on the knowledge, attitude and ...