Textbook Of Pharmacovigilance 2nd/2019

<p>This is the updated second edition of the Textbook of Pharmacovigilance: Ensuring the Safe Use of Medicine. All the chapters have been updated and new chapters like Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance, Hospitalization due to Adverse Drug Reactions and its Economic Burden, and Vigilance Systems for Medical Devices have been added. This book will be useful for the healthcare professionals, postgraduate students, industry professionals and those engaged in clinical research at academia and the pharmaceutical industry.</p><p><b>KEY FEATURES</b></p><ul><li>Introduction to Pharmacovigilance-basic definitions, classifications, objectives and historical perspective of pharmacovigilance.</li><li>Presents the revised and updated information about the various aspects of pharmacovigilance such as setting up of a pharmacovigilance centre, regulations in various countries, methods of pharmacovigilance, benefit-risk assessment, signal detection, post-marketing surveillance, etc.</li><li>Inclusion of need-felt text on latest issues of pharmacovigilance such as:</li><li>Pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance</li><li>Pharmacoeconomic burden of hospitalization due to adverse drug reactions</li><li>Vigilance systems for medical devices</li><li>Data management in pharmacovigilance</li><li>Useful for teachers, research fellows, graduate and postgraduate students of</li><li>pharmacy, pharmacology and medicine; academia and industry.</li></ul>