Adverse Drug Event Reporting: The Roles of Consumers and Health-Care Professionals: Workshop Summary

by Jeffrey M. Drazen

Recent concerns about the unexpected adverse effects of marketed drugs, such as COX-2 (cyclooxygenase-2) inhibitors or specific statins, raise concerns not only about reporting these events during premarket studies, but also about the responsibility for ongoing surveillance of drugs once they are on the market. Sometimes serious adverse drug reactions are fully appreciated only after a drug has been on the market for years. Therefore, when a drug...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309102766
• ISBN13: 9780309102766
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 82 Pages