Practical Pharmacovigilance

• Pharmacovigilance
• Side Effect - Adverse Reaction
• Serious Adverse Event or Reaction
• Signal 
• Causality Assessment of Suspected Adverse Reactions
• Frequency of adverse drug reactions
• Concepts in Critical Terms
• Original articles from Drug Safety (Adis International Ltd)
• WHO Aide Memoire for Pharmacovigilance
• Effective Communications in Pharmacovigilance - The Erice Declaration

A glossary of terms commonly used in pharmacovigilance work is downloadable in pdf format here (110 Kb). This is an updated version of the Appendix 3 'Definitions and Glossary' in Viewpoint 2.

• Glossary of terms

A discussion paper on the question of ADR reporting forms and whether a common general form is possible is downloadable here.

• Generic form for ADR reporting discussion paper

Practical Pharmacovigilance menu page last updated 4 January 2008