Current Challenges In Pharmacovigilance

Current Challenges In Pharmacovigilance

Author Name : Maryam Sadiq, Tirumala Durvasula

ABSTRACT

Pharmacovigilance is the pharmacological science associated with the detection, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects, especially long-term and short-term adverse effects of medicines.While pharmacovigilance systems have made substantial progress in the past several decades, all pharmacovigilance systems face a common set of ongoing challenges in drug safety surveillance in five principal interrelated areas: engaging the public, collaboration, and partnerships, incorporating informatics, adopting a global approach, and assessing the impact of efforts. In broad terms, these challenges are not new. Rather, advances in science and technology and more demanding societal expectations have changed the nature of these challenges and provided new opportunities to move the field forward. Differences in organization and levels of development, as well as regional differences, necessarily imply that a single approach is not suitable for all regions; though sharing of best practices can help each region.

Keywords: Adverse drug reaction(ADR),Individual case study report(ICSR),Reporting of adverse effects, Case reports, Reporting regulations