Pharmacovigilance & Drug Safety

Pharmacovigilance Practice

Pharmacovigilance (PV) is the process of detecting and monitoring adverse drug reactions (ADR), adverse events (ADE), detecting potential 'signals' throughout the drug/medical device lifecycle, and also tracking trends in consumers' sentiments regarding a particular product (drug/medical device) over time.

There are four important methods in Pharmacovigilance such as,

Passive surveillance.

Active surveillance.

Cohort event monitoring.

Targeted Clinical Investigations.