Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reporting System (original) (raw)

The Professional Medical Journal

This study was conducted to assess the pharmacy students and graduateknowledge and awareness about pharmacovigilance & adverse drug reporting (ADR) systemin Karachi, Pakistan. Objectives: This study was designed to identify the trends, perception andapproaches of pharmacy students and graduate towards current scenarios of pharmacovigilanceand ADR contextual to our setting. Study Design: It was cross sectional, qualitative study.Setting: Pharmacy final year students and fresh graduates of two public and two private sectoruniversities were included in the study. Period: Data was collected between January to August,2015. Method: Relevant information was collected using questionnaire with 18 open ended and7 close ended questions. 400 final year participants and 150 fresh graduates were incorporatedin this survey. SPSS 20.0 was used to analyze the results and Percent, frequencies and meanscores were calculated for various outcomes. Results: Response rate of final year studentsand fresh g...

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