Quality of medicines in Sri Lanka: a retrospective review of safety alerts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many medicine quality problems are detected after they arrive at health facilities. Thus, critically defective medicines that may pose health risks to patients need to be withheld or recalled.

Aims

To investigate the withheld and recalled medicines in relation to the types of defects, their total numbers, therapeutic categories, pharmaceutical dosage forms, and country of manufacturer during the study period.

Methods

A retrospective review was performed on withheld and recalled medicines published on the publicly available National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) official website in Sri Lanka between June 2018 and August 2021. Details on substandard medicines (SM) were extracted and documented. Each record of SM was individually reviewed to determine

SUBMITTER: Tharmalinga Sharma JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10496228 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature