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ReviewClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2020

Improving the Safety of Medicines in the European Union: From Signals to Action.

Joanne Potts, Georgy Genov, Andrej Segec, June Raine, Sabine Straus, Peter Arlett

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Review in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Joanne PottsPharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Department, European Medicines Agency (EMA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Georgy GenovPharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Department, European Medicines Agency (EMA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Andrej SegecPharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Department, European Medicines Agency (EMA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
June RaineMedicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), London, UK.
Sabine StrausMedicines Evaluation Board (MEB), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Peter ArlettPharmacovigilance and Epidemiology Department, European Medicines Agency (EMA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pharmacovigilance and risk minimization must be planned during drug development and forms a critical part of the regulator's decision on whether a medicinal product can be authorized. Pharmacovigilance systems should ensure proactive monitoring of all authorized medicines throughout their lifecycle in clinical use. Signal detection and management are core activities in pharmacovigilance, rapidly delivering new information on the safety of medicines in real-world use which helps to fill knowledge gaps. The first 6 years of the European Union (EU) signal management system resulted in 453 recommendations issued by the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC), of which more than half were for drug labeling changes. The EU pharmacovigilance network has demonstrated its ability to detect and evaluate new drug safety signals. This has resulted in new warnings to guide the safe and effective use of medicines in Europe.

Indexed as

PharmacovigilanceAdverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsDrug DevelopmentDrug LabelingDrug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsEuropean UnionHumansLegislation, DrugRisk AssessmentRisk Management

Identifiers

PMID31621897
PMCPMC7027976

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