Saudi Vigilance Program: Challenges and lessons learned

• Main Authors: Adel Alharf (Author), Nasser Alqahtani (Author), Ghazi Saeed (Author), Ali Alshahrani (Author), Mubarak Alshahrani (Author), Nasser Aljasser (Author), Mohammed Alquwaizani (Author), Saleh Bawazir (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pharmacovigilance is vital to public health. Adopting a robust spontaneous reporting system for adverse drug events can counteract most hazards that arise from utilizing medicinal products. Prior to the establishment of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), the number of pharmacovigilance-relate...