Textbook of Pharmacovigilance: Ensuring the Safe Use of Medicines

1. Key Definitions in Pharmacovigilance
2. Pharmacovigilance:: Historical Perspective
3. Pharmacovigilance:: Need and Objectives
4. Current Methods of Pharmacovigilance
5. Adverse Drug Reactions:: Classification, Mechanism and Interaction
6. Signal Detection in Pharmacovigilance
7. Postmarketing Surveillance
8. Setting up of a Pharmacovigilance Centre
9. Benefit-Risk Assessment in Pharmacovigilance
10. Crisis Management in Pharmacovigilance
11. WHO Pharmacovigilance:: Programme for Global Drug Monitoring
12. Pharmacovigilance of Herbal Drugs
13. Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities:: An Overview
14. Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacovigilance
15. Pharmacovigilance Regulations in Various Countries
16. Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance
17. Hospitalization due to Adverse Drug Reactions and its Economic Burden
18. Vigilance Systems for Medical Devices
19. Data Mangement in Pharmacovigilance
Annexures
Index