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ReviewTherapeutic advances in drug safety2015

European Union pharmacovigilance capabilities: potential for the new legislation.

John Joseph Borg, Amy Tanti, Dimitrios Kouvelas, Calin Lungu, Michal Pirozynski, Anthony Serracino-Inglott, George Aislaitner

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Review in Therapeutic advances in drug safety, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

John Joseph BorgMedicines Authority, 203 Level 3, Rue D'Argens, Gzira, GZR 1368, Malta.
Amy TantiMedicines Authority, Gzira, Malta.
Dimitrios KouvelasSchool of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Calin LunguDDCS, Windhof, Luxemburg.
Michal PirozynskiDepartment of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Postgraduate Medical School, Warsaw, Poland.
Anthony Serracino-InglottDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Malta, Msida Malta.
George AislaitnerNational Organisation of Medicines (EOF), Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

European Directives and Regulations introduced between late 2010 and 2012 have substantially overhauled pharmacovigilance processes across the European Union (EU). In this review, the implementation of the pharmacovigilance legislative framework by EU regulators is examined with the aim of mapping Directive 2010/84/EU and Regulation EC No. 1235/2010 against their aspired objectives of strengthening and rationalizing pharmacovigilance in the EU. A comprehensive review of the current state of affairs of the progress made by EU regulators is presented in this paper. Our review shows that intense efforts by regulators and industry to fulfil legislative obligations have resulted in major positive shifts in pharmacovigilance. Harmonized decision making, transparency in decision processes with patient involvement, information accessibility to the public, patient adverse drug reaction reporting, efforts in communication and enhanced cooperation between member states to maximize resource utilization and minimize duplication of efforts are observed.

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adverse drug reactionsdrug safetyperiodic safety update reportspharmacovigilancePharmacovigilance and Risk Assessment Committeepost authorization safety studiesregulatory affairssignal detection

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PMID26301067
PMCPMC4530350

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