Perception of pharmacovigilance among doctors in a tertiary care hospital: Influence of an interventional lecture

Sanghavi, Dhara; Dhande, Priti; Pandit, Vijaya

doi:10.3233/jrs-130598

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“…In Qatar healthcare pharmacists identified an increased likelihood of reporting a suspected ADR if the reactions were serious for the patient or associated with a new medication [16]. Similar results were obtained by Sanghavi et al [17], and the participants believed that they should report ADRs if the reaction was serious and unusual in nature. These results raise many questions: why medical staffs do not share the same perception that other healthcare providers have worldwide regarding ADR types that should be reported, and why unusual reactions would not be reported although the unexpected and rare reactions are the most dangerous.…”

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Awareness and Perception of National Pharmacovigilance Center among Lebanese Medical Staff

Awada¹,

Amal²

2016

J Pharmacovigil

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Background: The safety of patients and the safe use of medicines are high requisitions in the modern world, this emerged the practice and science of pharmacovigilance. This study evaluates the opinions and the perceptions about the importance and the need of national Pharmacovigilance center among Lebanese medical staff. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried to assess the perception of the healthcare professionals (doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and dentists) working in hospitals, private clinics and community pharmacies regarding the national pharmacovigilance center. Results: Results showed a 91.27% response rate. Only 46.2% of healthcare providers were aware of the pharmacovigilance term. 69.23% of them gave correct response regarding the definition of pharmacovigilance and 39.90% of the participants knew the most important purpose of pharmacovigilance. Among the participants, 87.6% have experienced ADRs in their practice, but only 16.3% have ever reported ADRs. 12.4% of the healthcare workers have been trained for reporting adverse reactions, but, 91.6% healthcare professionals agreed that ADR reporting is necessary and 89% considered that pharmacovigilance should be taught in details to healthcare professionals. Conclusion: Pharmacovigilance is being taught to some extent in theory, but the knowledge on the practical approach is lacking. Today, the need for an efficient pharmacovigilance system is necessary more than ever, to ensure the safe use of medicines. An urgent culture of learning about pharmacovigilance taken at the national level should be started earlier.

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confidence: 76%

Awareness and Perception of National Pharmacovigilance Center among Lebanese Medical Staff

Awada¹,

Amal²

2016

J Pharmacovigil

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“…9 Our study goes hand in hand with the results of the study done by Sanghavi et al, Hardeep et al, Manuela Tabali et al in which intervention improved knowledge of the participants about ADR reporting system. [10][11][12] All these study demonstrated that an educational intervention could increase the awareness on ADRs among practitioners and they could incorporate the knowledge gained from training into their everyday clinical practice for the success of PvPI.…”

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confidence: 99%

Impact of educational intervention on awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical undergraduates in Karnataka, India: a cross-sectional study

Shivaraju

Gangadhar

Manchukonda

et al. 2016

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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INTRODUCTION WHO defines Pharmacovigilance as "the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem". 1 The world health organization (WHO) defines an ADR as "a response to a drug which is harmful and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for the prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease or for the modification of body functions". 2 Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Previous studies have revealed that around 2.9-5.6% of all hospital admissions are due to ADRs and as many as 35% of hospitalized individuals experience an ADR during their period of hospitalization. 3

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“…Similar findings was obtained in India 70% (Desai et al, 2011), and Nigeria 48.6% (Adedeji et al, 2013). In another surveys ADR reporting was considered as time consuming, India 45% (Sanghavi et al, 2013) were adequate knowledge on how to report was identified among the healthcare professionals. It is a serious concern to realize that such a large proportion of the participants does not know how to report ADRs because this can delay signal detection and impact negatively on the public health.…”

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confidence: 99%

Health Care Workers’ Knowleddge and Perceptions About Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting

Napuce¹,

Tabaku²

2019

IJPHC

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Spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting is the cornerstone of pharmacovigilance. However, underreporting is a huge problem due to lack of reporting, especially in developing countries, where system of pharmacovigilance is not consolidated. A descriptive crosssectional survey is conducted on health professionals (physicians and nurses) working in Mother Theresa hospital in Tirana from September 2017 to June 2018 aimed to estimating the level of pharmacovigilance knowledge and practice of health professionals. A questionnaire which was suitable for assessing the basic Knowledge, Attitude and the Practice (KAP) of pharmacovigilance was designed and distributed among the physicians and nurses and filled up forms collected back and analyzed by using software SPSS 20. Out of 250 distributed forms 200 forms were received back, reflecting a response rate of 80%. Results of this survey have shown that 80% of interviewed didn't know about the term of pharmacovigilance Over 90 % of declaration of adverse drug reaction were made to the medical representatives and less than 10% to the National Pharmacovigilance Centre. 50 % of physicians and 65 % of nurses were not aware of the existence of National Pharmacovigilance Center. A wrong definition of pharmacovigilance term was given by 60% of physicians and 70% of nurses. Pharmacovigilance is a public health problem in Albania, with due to lack of good knowledge and practice of medical staff (physicians and nurses). There was a great need to create awareness among physicians and nurses to improve the knowledge about pharmacovigilance and the reporting of ADRs.

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Perception of pharmacovigilance among doctors in a tertiary care hospital: Influence of an interventional lecture

Cited by 25 publications

References 20 publications

Awareness and Perception of National Pharmacovigilance Center among Lebanese Medical Staff

Awareness and Perception of National Pharmacovigilance Center among Lebanese Medical Staff

Impact of educational intervention on awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical undergraduates in Karnataka, India: a cross-sectional study

Health Care Workers’ Knowleddge and Perceptions About Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting

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