Under-reporting of adverse drug reactions: a challenge for pharmacovigilance in India

VR Tandon, V Mahajan, V Khajuria… - Indian journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Aim: The aim was to evaluate the extent and factors responsible for underreporting (UR) of
adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in India. Materials and Methods: A retrospective …

Governance and pharmacovigilance in Brazil: a scoping review

K Moscou, JC Kohler, A MaGahan - Journal of Pharmaceutical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background This scoping review investigates the relationship between governance,
pharmacovigilance, and Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria (ANVISA) in Brazil, which …

Patterns and predictors of off-label prescription of psychiatric drugs

A Vijay, JE Becker, JS Ross - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Off-label prescribing of psychiatric drugs is common, despite lacking strong scientific
evidence of efficacy and potentially increasing risk for adverse events. The goal of this study …

Pharmacovigilance in oncology: evaluation of current practice and future perspectives

P Baldo, P De Paoli - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale, aims and objectives Pharmacovigilance (PV), or drug safety monitoring, aims to
improve patient safety through the detection and management of drug‐related adverse …

Addressing the under-reporting of adverse drug reactions in public health programs controlling HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A prospective cohort study

YK Avong, B Jatau, R Gurumnaan, N Danat, J Okuma… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are a major clinical and public health problem
world-wide. The prompt reporting of suspected ADRs to regulatory authorities to activate …

Impact of a pharmacist-driven pharmacovigilance system in a secondary hospital in the Gauteng Province of South Africa

A Terblanche, JC Meyer, B Godman… - Hospital …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background and aims: Under-reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) by health-care
professionals (HCPs) is a worldwide problem. Spontaneous reporting in hospitals is scarce …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacovigilance and its importance for primary health care professionals

AAA Hamid, R Rahim, SP Teo - Korean Journal of Family Medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pharmacovigilance is used to detect, assess, understand, and prevent the adverse effects of
medications. The need for safety monitoring has evolved around unfortunate incidents in …

Knowledge, attitudes and perspective on adverse drug reaction reporting in a public sector hospital in South Africa: baseline analysis

A Terblanche, JC Meyer, B Godman… - Hospital …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Objective: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can cause significant harm in
patients; however, ADRs are under-reported in many countries, including South Africa …

Analysis of reporting adverse drug reactions in paediatric patients in a university hospital in the Netherlands

ATM Dittrich, JMT Draaisma, EP van Puijenbroek… - Pediatric Drugs, 2020 - Springer
Aims The risk to develop adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is high for paediatric patients. This
is, amongst other reasons, due to the inevitable use of off-label and unlicensed medicines …

Postmarket safety communication for protection of public health: A comparison of regulatory policy in Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States

AL Bhasale, A Sarpatwari, ML De Bruin… - Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the wake of the withdrawal of the nonsteroidal anti‐inflammatory drug rofecoxib,
regulators worldwide reconsidered their approach to postmarket safety. Many have since …