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Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City

BACKGROUND: Health-care professionals across the globe are obligated to report adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting is vital for patient safety. This study intends to investigate the knowledge of ADRs and attitude of hea...

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Autores principales: Moinuddin, Khaja, Ali, Sheraz, Al-Aqqad, Amal Qadri, Salem, Sara Osama, Al-Dossari, Maram Abdullah, Ananzeh, Abdullah Mohammad, Baqar, Jaffer Bin
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29657505
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_234_17
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author Moinuddin, Khaja
Ali, Sheraz
Al-Aqqad, Amal Qadri
Salem, Sara Osama
Al-Dossari, Maram Abdullah
Ananzeh, Abdullah Mohammad
Baqar, Jaffer Bin
author_facet Moinuddin, Khaja
Ali, Sheraz
Al-Aqqad, Amal Qadri
Salem, Sara Osama
Al-Dossari, Maram Abdullah
Ananzeh, Abdullah Mohammad
Baqar, Jaffer Bin
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description BACKGROUND: Health-care professionals across the globe are obligated to report adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting is vital for patient safety. This study intends to investigate the knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire was conducted over a period of 3 months (September 2016 to November 2016) at King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This study included 399 questionnaires submitted by health-care professionals. RESULTS: A total of 399 questionnaires were submitted by health-care professionals, of which only 14.8% knew the term “ADR” and 55.1% of the respondents reported ADRs during their practice. A total of 93.8% of the respondents agreed that ADR reporting should be made mandatory for health-care professionals, and 94.5% agreed that it improves the patient safety. CONCLUSION: The findings generally indicate that health-care professionals in a tertiary care setting have low awareness regarding the term “ADR.” Lack of pharmacovigilance training, amount of workload, and legal liabilities are the main causes of underreporting. More than half of the respondents agreed that ADR reporting eventually improves patient safety.
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spelling pubmed-58876492018-04-13 Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City Moinuddin, Khaja Ali, Sheraz Al-Aqqad, Amal Qadri Salem, Sara Osama Al-Dossari, Maram Abdullah Ananzeh, Abdullah Mohammad Baqar, Jaffer Bin J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Health-care professionals across the globe are obligated to report adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting is vital for patient safety. This study intends to investigate the knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire was conducted over a period of 3 months (September 2016 to November 2016) at King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This study included 399 questionnaires submitted by health-care professionals. RESULTS: A total of 399 questionnaires were submitted by health-care professionals, of which only 14.8% knew the term “ADR” and 55.1% of the respondents reported ADRs during their practice. A total of 93.8% of the respondents agreed that ADR reporting should be made mandatory for health-care professionals, and 94.5% agreed that it improves the patient safety. CONCLUSION: The findings generally indicate that health-care professionals in a tertiary care setting have low awareness regarding the term “ADR.” Lack of pharmacovigilance training, amount of workload, and legal liabilities are the main causes of underreporting. More than half of the respondents agreed that ADR reporting eventually improves patient safety. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5887649/ /pubmed/29657505 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_234_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Pharmacy And Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Moinuddin, Khaja
Ali, Sheraz
Al-Aqqad, Amal Qadri
Salem, Sara Osama
Al-Dossari, Maram Abdullah
Ananzeh, Abdullah Mohammad
Baqar, Jaffer Bin
Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City
title Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City
title_full Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City
title_fullStr Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City
title_short Knowledge and Attitude of Health-Care Professionals Toward Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting at King Saud Medical City
title_sort knowledge and attitude of health-care professionals toward adverse drug reactions reporting at king saud medical city
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887649/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29657505
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_234_17
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