Adverse reactions: Next steps in learning...
Here are some resources to help extend your knowledge about adverse reactions and advising about their prevention and management in clinical practice:
Try the MHRA’s learning module on pharmacovigilance which was developed with BMJ Learning. This requires you to register with the site.
- Adverse drug reactions and medicines safety is concerned with the prevalence and characteristics of different types of adverse drug reactions.
- Reporting adverse drug reactions describes how and when to report reactions.
- Patients and adverse drug reactions focuses on patients at risk of adverse drug reactions and techniques for improving safety and communicating risk to patients.
On the Medicines Learning Portal, there are other tutorials with a connection to ADRs and safety, including Excipients, Renal, Liver, and Alternative Medicine. You might like to study these.
Finally, you may like to review two additional sources of information about adverse drug reactions that offer you different perspectives:
- The European Database of Suspected Adverse Drug Reaction Reports is run by the European Medicines Agency. Here you can see suspected adverse reaction reports submitted by national medicines regulatory authorities and pharmaceutical companies.
- An interesting resource is the American database DrugInformer, which holds data on suspected adverse drug reactions gathered from social media (Facebook, Twitter, user review sites, forum discussions), as well as information from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS).