Reporting, Monitoring, and Handling of Adverse Drug Reactions in Australia: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are unintended consequences of medication use and may result in hospitalizations or deaths. Timely reporting of ADRs to regulators is essential for drug monitoring, research, and maintaining patient safety, but it has not been standardized in Australia.

Objective

We sought to explore the ways that ADRs are monitored or reported in Australia. We reviewed how consumers and health care professionals participate in ADR monitoring and reporting.

Methods

The Arksey and O'Malley framework provided a methodology to sort the data according to key themes and issues. Web of Science, Scopus, Embase, PubMed, CINAHL, and Computer & Applied Sciences Complete databases were used to extract articles published from 2010 to 2021. Two reviewers sc

SUBMITTER: Fossouo Tagne J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9887513 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature