The system of drug side effects monitoring in the cardiological wards of the University Hospital No. 1 in Poznań. 6-year observation
Jabłecka, A.; Jankowski, J.; Andrys, I.
Wiadomosci Lekarskie 53(5-6): 277-282
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-5147 PMID: 10983382 Document Number: 522605
According to the guidelines from the Polish Ministry of Health, it is necessary to develop in Poland a system for supervising the safety of pharmacotherapy. Within the framework of this system a crucial role has been allocated to the Regional Centres for Monitoring of Side Effects of Drugs, affiliated to University Schools of Medicine. As there is no established routine for reporting side effects of drugs in Poland by medical professionals, the only way to obtain the data on drugs side effects was to prepare the system for internal monitoring of side effects of drugs in three clinical cardiology wards of the Institute of Cardiology at the University Hospital No. 1 in Poznań. During the 6-year follow up, 208 cases were registered and classified according to the type of the side effect (A, B, C, D) and according to the division into pharmacological groups. Most of the reported side effects belonged to the type A (67.8%), and, subsequently, type C (23.6%), type D (6.2%), type B (2.4%). The presented analysis allowed only for identifying the side effects. For the assessment of incidence and the range of occurrence of these side effects it is necessary to work out an effective, multicenter system for monitoring side effects of drugs in Poland.