WHO perspective on preventing avoidable harm from medicines

Autor: Shanthi N. Pal, Mary Couper, Jacqueline Sawyer, Lembit Rägo
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: BMJ. 332:1393.3-1394
ISSN: 1468-5833
0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.332.7554.1393-b
Popis: EDITOR—The BMJ news item on adverse drug reactions is important.1 The estimated annual expenditure of $870m towards issues related to such effects would be hard on any economy; such figures could seriously cripple countries with lesser resources. The cost factor should then be at least one of the reasons for all developing countries to promote pharmacovigilance. Started in 1968, the World Health …
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