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ArticleDrug safety2015

The monitoring medicines project: a multinational pharmacovigilance and public health project.

Shanthi N Pal, Sten Olsson, Elliot G Brown

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Article in Drug safety, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Shanthi N PalQuality Assurance and Safety: Medicines Department of Essential Medicines and Pharmaceutical Policies, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, pals@who.int.
Sten Olsson
Elliot G Brown

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Monitoring Medicines project (MM), funded by the FP-7 EU framework, was carried out between 2009 and 2013 by a consortium of 11 partners. The objectives were to support and strengthen consumer reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs); expand the role and scope of national pharmacovigilance centres concerning medication errors; promote improved use of pharmacovigilance data; and develop methods to complement spontaneous reporting. The work was organised into four themes: patient reporting; medication errors; drug dependence, counterfeit and substandard medicines and clinical risk estimation; and active and targeted spontaneous pharmacovigilance. MM differed from some other major pharmacovigilance initiatives by having participants from developing countries in Asia and Africa and in leaning towards public health and communicable diseases. MM brought together stakeholders including WHO, drug regulators, pharmacovigilance centres, consumers, public health and disease specialists and patient safety networks. Resources and methodologies developed directly by, or with support from, MM include electronic systems/tools for consumer ADR reporting and cohort event monitoring; publication by WHO of handbooks on consumer reporting, medication errors and pharmacovigilance for TB medicines; methodologies for detecting drug dependence and substandard or counterfeit medicines in ADR databases; and a database on HIV treatment risks with a risk assessment tool. MM enabled stakeholders to achieve more than if they had worked alone in pursuit of patient safety.

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InternationalityPublic HealthDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsEuropean UnionHumansMedication ErrorsProduct Surveillance, PostmarketingWorld Health Organization

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PMID25829215
PMCPMC4544540

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