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Safety of Medicines - A Guide to Detecting and Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions - Why Health Professionals Need to Take Action
(2002; 16 pages)
Table of Contents
View the documentIntroduction
View the documentGlossary
View the documentThe magnitude of the problem
View the documentWhy postmarketing surveillance and reporting ADR is needed
View the documentWhy pharmacovigilance is needed in every country
View the documentHow voluntary reporting on ADRs can prevent new medicine tragedies from developing
View the documentHow voluntary reporting on ADRs can influence labelling
View the documentWhy health professionals are in the best position to detect and report on ADRs
View the documentHow to recognize ADRs
View the documentWhat should be reported?
View the documentHow to report ADRs?
View the documentReferences
View the documentAcknowledgements
 

References

1 Safety Monitoring of Medicinal Products. Guidelines for setting up and running a Pharmacovigilance Centre. Uppsala Monitoring Centre - WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring, EQUUS, London, 2000.

2 Lazarou J. et al., 1998. Incidence of ADR in hospitalized patients: a meta-analysis of prospective studies. JAMA, 1998, 279 (15) 1000-5.

3 Moore N et al. Frequency and cost of serious adverse drug reactions in a department of general medicine. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1998, 45(3), 301-308.

4 Imbs JL et al. Latrogenic medication: estimation of its prevalence in French public hospitals. Thèrapie, 1999, 54(1) 21-27.

5 Griffin GP. The evaluation of human medicines control from a national to an international perspective. Ad Drug React Toxico Rev., 1998, 17(1), 19-50.

6 White T et al. Counting the cost of drug-related adverse events. Pharmacoeconomics, 1999,15(5). 445-458.

7 Strom BL. Pharmacoepidemiology. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley, 1994.

8 Venulet J. The Drug Monitoring Programme. In: Drug Surveillance, Geneva 1994, 13-21.

Useful Websites

WHO

www.who.int/medicines/
Section: Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines

WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring (Uppsala Monitoring Centre)

www.who-umc.org

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