Pharmacovigilance: The conscientious today for safe tomorrow
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapeutics (IJRPP) - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Pharmacovigilance is the Science and activity relating to detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other possible medicine-related problems. There are guidelines and regulations from the Council for International Organizations of Medical Science (CIOMS), the European Medicines Agency, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other that focus on pre-clinical, pre-marketing and post marketing safety evaluations.The roles of Pharmacist actually have and could have in collecting reports of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and more widely in Pharmacovigilance. In this review, several ways are mentioned in which the pharmacist, both the community pharmacist and the hospital pharmacist, can contribute to the safe use of drug. In addition to their responsibilities regarding drug dispensing and compliance, they can have a substantial role in ADR reporting.
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Esmail O Elakesh
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