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Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care

For drug safety in pediatric patients, knowledge about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is essential to balance benefits and risks, especially because of the high incidence of off-label drug use. However, underreporting of ADRs is a serious problem, leading to a deficit in knowledge affecting clinical...

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Autores principales: Dittrich, Anne T. M., Smeets, Nori J. L., de Jong, Emma F. M., Kämink, Juliët L., Kroeze, Yvet, Draaisma, Jos M. Th., van Puijenbroek, Eugène P., te Loo, D. Maroeska W. M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9503115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36145369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph15091148
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author Dittrich, Anne T. M.
Smeets, Nori J. L.
de Jong, Emma F. M.
Kämink, Juliët L.
Kroeze, Yvet
Draaisma, Jos M. Th.
van Puijenbroek, Eugène P.
te Loo, D. Maroeska W. M.
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Smeets, Nori J. L.
de Jong, Emma F. M.
Kämink, Juliët L.
Kroeze, Yvet
Draaisma, Jos M. Th.
van Puijenbroek, Eugène P.
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description For drug safety in pediatric patients, knowledge about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is essential to balance benefits and risks, especially because of the high incidence of off-label drug use. However, underreporting of ADRs is a serious problem, leading to a deficit in knowledge affecting clinical practice. The aim of this study is to find a method by which we can improve the quantity of ADR reporting while maintaining or improving the quality of the ADR reports. This was done in several steps. First, health care providers were educated to increase awareness of ADRs. Thereafter, a novel active supporting system was introduced, where reporting ADRs was simplified; if clinical physicians suspected an ADR, they only had to send the name or hospital number of the patient, the observed ADR, and the suspected drug to a supportive team. This team collects all information needed about the possible ADR from the patient’s medical records and hospital charts. With this information, the supportive team fills in the forms necessary for reporting ADRs to the nationwide pharmacovigilance centre Lareb. With this system, the quantity of ADR reports from both inpatients and outpatients rose dramatically. Subsequently, the quality of the obtained ADR reports was measured using the ClinDoc and vigiGrade systems. This study shows there is no loss of quality of the ADR reports in the active reporting system compared to spontaneous reporting systems. Based on the data of the present study, we suggest that an active reporting system has the potential to increase our knowledge about ADRs in pediatric patients.
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spelling pubmed-95031152022-09-24 Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care Dittrich, Anne T. M. Smeets, Nori J. L. de Jong, Emma F. M. Kämink, Juliët L. Kroeze, Yvet Draaisma, Jos M. Th. van Puijenbroek, Eugène P. te Loo, D. Maroeska W. M. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) Article For drug safety in pediatric patients, knowledge about adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is essential to balance benefits and risks, especially because of the high incidence of off-label drug use. However, underreporting of ADRs is a serious problem, leading to a deficit in knowledge affecting clinical practice. The aim of this study is to find a method by which we can improve the quantity of ADR reporting while maintaining or improving the quality of the ADR reports. This was done in several steps. First, health care providers were educated to increase awareness of ADRs. Thereafter, a novel active supporting system was introduced, where reporting ADRs was simplified; if clinical physicians suspected an ADR, they only had to send the name or hospital number of the patient, the observed ADR, and the suspected drug to a supportive team. This team collects all information needed about the possible ADR from the patient’s medical records and hospital charts. With this information, the supportive team fills in the forms necessary for reporting ADRs to the nationwide pharmacovigilance centre Lareb. With this system, the quantity of ADR reports from both inpatients and outpatients rose dramatically. Subsequently, the quality of the obtained ADR reports was measured using the ClinDoc and vigiGrade systems. This study shows there is no loss of quality of the ADR reports in the active reporting system compared to spontaneous reporting systems. Based on the data of the present study, we suggest that an active reporting system has the potential to increase our knowledge about ADRs in pediatric patients. MDPI 2022-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9503115/ /pubmed/36145369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph15091148 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Dittrich, Anne T. M.
Smeets, Nori J. L.
de Jong, Emma F. M.
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van Puijenbroek, Eugène P.
te Loo, D. Maroeska W. M.
Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care
title Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care
title_full Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care
title_fullStr Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care
title_full_unstemmed Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care
title_short Quality of Active versus Spontaneous Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions in Pediatric Patients: Relevance for Pharmacovigilance and Knowledge in Pediatric Medical Care
title_sort quality of active versus spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions in pediatric patients: relevance for pharmacovigilance and knowledge in pediatric medical care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9503115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36145369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph15091148
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