The Role of Pharmacovigilance in combatting Drug-Related Adverse Events

Abstract

Pharmacovigilance is used to detect, assess, understand and prevent the adverse effects of the medications. The need for safety monitoring has arose from unpleasant instances in history, such as deaths caused by Anesthesia and Congenital malformations as a result of thalidomide use. Reports of adverse drug Reaction (ADR) are maintained in global database and can be used to evaluate various Drugs and associated ADRs. Clinicians play an important role in the recognition and reporting of ADRs to NPCs. The purpose of NPCs is to make the clinicians understand their functions, including the monitoring investigation and assessment of ADR reports along with periodical benefit-risk assessment of medications. The types of safety issues evaluated by them are provided to illustrate their role in medicine safety surveillance further more ADR monitoring was combined with vaccine safety surveillance approaches. Overall the study provides importance of Pharmacovigilance in combatting various drug related adverse events in maintaining Patient safety with proper use Medications.