ReviewEuropean journal of clinical pharmacology2018
Urgent need to modernize pharmacovigilance education in healthcare curricula: review of the literature.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of the Legal Considerations Surrounding Medicines Management.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Pooled it
- Healthcare students' knowledge, attitude and perception of pharmacovigilance: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
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- The Moroccan Experience of Implementing a University Curriculum for the Pharmacovigilance of Herbal Medicines (Phytovigilance).Drug safety · 2024Article
- Pharmacovigilance teaching and learning: a mixed cross-sectional analysis of the Portuguese public higher education system.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding Pharmacovigilance and Barriers to Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions Among the General Population in Saudi Arabia.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2024Article
- Knowledge of pharmacovigilance among healthcare professionals and the impact of an educational intervention.Medicine and pharmacy reports · 2023Article
- Medical profile of patients referred to an Australian postgraduate oral surgery clinic.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2023Article
- Retrospective analysis of gastrointestinal bleedings with direct oral anticoagulants reported to EudraVigilance.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesPharmacovigilance education is essential since adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a serious health problem and contribute to unnecessary patient burden and hospital admissions. Healthcare professionals have little awareness of pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting, and only few educational interventions had durable effects on this awareness. Our future healthcare providers should therefore acquire an adequate set of pharmacovigilance competencies to rationally prescribe, distribute, and monitor drugs. We investigated the pharmacovigilance and ADR-reporting competencies of healthcare students to identify educational interventions that are effective in promoting pharmacovigilance.
methodsThe PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and ERIC databases were searched using the terms "pharmacovigilance," "students," and "education.".
resultsTwenty-five cross-sectional and 14 intervention studies describing mostly medical and pharmacy students were included. Intentions and attitudes on ADR reporting were overall positive, although most students felt inadequately prepared, missed the training on this topic, and lacked basic knowledge. Although nearly all students observed ADRs during clinical rounds, only a few had actually been involved in reporting an ADR. Educational interventions were predominately lectures, sometimes accompanied by small interactive working groups. Most interventions resulted in a direct increase in knowledge with an unknown long-term effect. Real-life learning initiatives have shown that healthcare students are capable of contributing to patient care while increasing their ADR-reporting skills and knowledge.
conclusionsThere is an urgent need to improve and innovate current pharmacovigilance education for undergraduate healthcare students. By offering real-life pharmacovigilance training, students will increase their knowledge and awareness but can also assist current healthcare professionals to meet their pharmacovigilance obligations.
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