Implementation of the Adverse Effects Notification Program for Patients in Guantánamo
Journal Title: Revista Información Científica - Year 2018, Vol 97, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction: The medicines have turned into subject of worry, every time are more of them that commercialise, increases considerably the consumption of the same and, as a consequence, appear the adverse effects. Objective: Implement the notification of adverse effects by patients to classify and identify these effects that appear in the practical usual clinic (In the system of Cuban health works with the method of spontaneous notification by the sanitary professionals, however, does not exist a program where the patients notify his adverse effects of direct form. Method: observational and transversal descriptive study, that used the method of Parmacovigilance spontaneous notification of suspicious of adverse reactions in the municipal main pharmacies of the province of Guantánamo to implement a Program of Notification of Adverse Effects to Medicines by Patients. It designed a planilla of collected of data that was to disposal of the patients in the 10 main pharmacies municipal of the province. Results: report of adverse effects were more frequent in the patients of 15 to 39 years of age and feminine sex. The farmacological groups that predominated were the antimicrobic, AINES and the vaccines, being the most frequent medicines the vaccine antigripal, the cefalexina and the captopril. The systems of organs more affected were digestive, skin and central nervous system. The slight adverse effects, likely and frequent Predominated. Conclusions: The implementation of a program of report of adverse effects by the patients is feasible and provides important data to the sanitary system.
Authors and Affiliations
Yudeisi Amyeline Trabanca Beltrán, Giset Jiménez López, Ismaris Alfonso Orta, Katiusca Pavón Guibert, Fermín Albear Caró
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