DSRU 205 - Pharmacovigilance

Using Medicines Information. Ed: Christine Bond. Radcliffe Publishing, UK. 1995:9:141-168
Pharmacovigilance

Layton D¹, Cox A²

¹Drug Safety Research Unit, Bursledon Hall, Blundell Lane, Southampton, SO31 1AA
²West Midlands Adverse Drug Reactions Centre, Birmingham

Summary/Abstract:

This chapter discusses the background to the need for pharmacovigilance and describes in detail two of the main mechanisms by which this is studied in the UK: the Yellow Card Spontaneous Reporting Scheme, and Prescription-Event Monitoring. A brief discussion of the complementarity of the two systems concludes this chapter.