The spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions by nurses.

Hall, Mary; McCormack, Patricia; Arthurs, Niamh; Feely, J.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2125.1995.tb05774.x

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“…35 Estes profissionais são responsáveis pela administração e monitorização da terapêutica, particularmente nos idosos, estando numa posição privilegiada para identificar iatrogenia medicamentosa. [35][36][37][38][39] Apesar da nova legislação de Farmacovigilância permitir que tanto os profissionais de saúde como os utentes possam notificar suspeitas de reações adversas, a contribuição destes últimos tem sido residual. 40 Os utentes já estavam autorizados a notificar suspeitas de reações adversas há alguns anos noutros países, por exemplo na Dinamarca, na Holanda ou no Reino Unido.…”

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Farmacovigilância em Portugal: Atividade da Unidade Regional do Centro

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Introduction:The aim of this study was to characterize the spontaneous reports of adverse events that were received by the Central Portugal Regional Pharmacovigilance Unit. Material and Methods: Spontaneous reports received between 01/2001 and 12/2013 were considered. The annual reporting ratios were estimated. The cases were characterized according to their seriousness, previous description, causality assessment, origin and professional group of the reporter, type of adverse event and pharmacotherapeutic groups of the suspected drugs most frequently reported. Results:The Pharmacovigilance Unit received 2408 reports that contained 5749 adverse events. In 2013, the reporting rate was estimated at 171 reports per million inhabitants. Fifty-five percent of the reports were assessed as serious. Ninety percent of the cases were assessed as being at least possibly related with the suspected drug. The suspected drugs most frequently reported were antiinfectives for systemic use (n = 809, 33%). The most frequently reported adverse events were "Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders" (n = 1139, 20%). There were 154 (6.4%) reports resulting in life-threatening situations and/or death, and 88 (3.6%) containing at least one adverse event assessed as serious, unknown and certain or probable. Discussion: The present results are in line with those found in other studies, namely the seriousness and type of the adverse events and the pharmacotherapeutic groups of the most frequently reported suspected drugs. Conclusion:In the last years, the Central Portugal Regional Pharmacovigilance Unit has registered a growth in the reporting rate in general, as well as an increase in the reporting of unknown and serious adverse drug reactions.

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“…Therefore it is logical and essential to involve nurses and encourage them to contribute to the ADR reporting system. 2,5 Our study has found moderate knowledge regarding ADR reporting, poor knowledge of ADR burden and poor practice. The average knowledge score of the respondents was 43% on ADR reporting and 16.5% on ADR burden, indicating that there is still much to be done to educate the nurses regarding ADR reporting.…”

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“…They are known to have an important role in ADR reporting in hospitals. 2 Thus, their level of awareness regarding ADRs, beliefs, opinions and attitudes towards reporting, the difficulties of spontaneous reporting of ADRs that they face will have an impact on the rate of reporting. Hence this study was conducted to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice patterns of nursing faculty and students towards ADR reporting and also to determine the barriers for reporting ADR.…”

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Adverse drug reactions reporting among nursing staff and students: a validated questionnaire based knowledge, attitude and practice study

Leena

Jose

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Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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INTRODUCTIONAdverse drug reactions (ADRs) are an important public health problem in terms of mortality, morbidity as well as costs. Spontaneous reporting of ADRs by health care professionals (HCP) plays a major role in establishing the frequency of occurrence of known ADRs, detection of new, serious and even unknown reactions. This helps in signal detection and enables regulatory agencies to formulate drug use guidelines, issue warnings or even ban/withdraw the drug from the market. A constant effort has been put by the concerned authorities in reinforcing reporting practices. However studies worldwide have shown gross under reporting with a median rate of around ABSTRACT Background: Lack of knowledge regarding pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among healthcare providers have been identified as major factors for under reporting of ADR in developing countries. Hence this study was planned to assess the knowledge and attitude of nursing faculty and students towards ADR reporting and also to determine the barriers to reporting ADR. Methods: A validated questionnaire based cross sectional study conducted among the nursing faculty and students in a tertiary health care center. Data was assessed by frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Statistical analysis was performed by using SPSS version 22. Results: The composite score on knowledge on ADR reporting was found to be moderate among nursing staff, GNM and BSc nursing students. The knowledge on burden due to ADR was found to be poor among all the three categories. Around 70% of all the respondents were of the opinion that ADR reporting by one person can make a significant difference to the community. More than 80% of nursing staff and GNM students opined one should have a suspicion of possible ADR during treatment. Majority of the nursing staff were in favour of mandatory and voluntary ADR reporting in the hospital. Conclusions:The nurses were only moderately aware of pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction reporting. Though the attitude towards ADR reporting was adequate, our study has shown that the actual practice of ADR reporting is unsatisfactory. Hence, it is essential to include pharmacovigilance training in the undergraduate teaching programs of nurses to promote reporting of adverse reactions.

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“…However, ADR reporting practices among nurses is very poor as demonstrated from earlier studies. [20][21][22] In our hospital, none of the nurses had ever reported an ADR even though 26 nurses had identified ADRs in the past.…”

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Factors influencing the knowledge and attitude of nurses towards adverse drug reaction reporting in a teaching hospital

Ahsan

Mallick

2017

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) are common in hospitalized patients. Nursing staff spends most time in patient care placing them at a key it position to recognize ADRs at the earliest. However, ADR reporting practices among nurses is very poor. We conducted this study to identify the factors affecting knowledge and attitude of nurses in a teaching hospital towards ADR reporting.Methods: A pre-tested and validated questionnaire was used. Correct responses in the knowledge section were awarded one mark and incorrect responses were given zero. Based on responses to attitude questions on a 5-point Likert scale, best attitude was scored five and least preferred attitude was given one point. Total knowledge and attitude scores were analyzed with regards to age, gender, educational qualification, average weekly working hours, total working experience in years and past experience with ADRs and ADR reporting. Knowledge scores were also correlated with attitude scores.Results: Knowledge level was poor with 48.29±23.85% average score while attitude of the respondents was reasonable with 65.69±10.05% average scores. The knowledge scores and attitude scores of BSc degree holders was higher than GNMs and ANMs (p<0.001). Those who had independently identified an ADR had higher knowledge scores (p<0.01) and more positive attitude (p<0.001). Attitude scores also had a significantly strong correlation with knowledge level of the respondents (r=0.72).Conclusions: Knowledge about ADR reporting is the most important factor determining the attitude towards ADR reporting. Increasing awareness would be pivotal in changing attitude and thus, improving reporting rates.

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The spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions by nurses.

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Farmacovigilância em Portugal: Atividade da Unidade Regional do Centro

Farmacovigilância em Portugal: Atividade da Unidade Regional do Centro

Adverse drug reactions reporting among nursing staff and students: a validated questionnaire based knowledge, attitude and practice study

Factors influencing the knowledge and attitude of nurses towards adverse drug reaction reporting in a teaching hospital

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