Basic Pharmacovigilance Competency Test

Abbreviated as PV or PhV, Pharmacovigilance is the science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines.  Generally speaking, it is the science of collecting, monitoring, researching, assessing and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients on the adverse effects of medications, biological, herbalism and traditional medicines with a view to:

• Identifying new information about hazards associated with medicines
• Preventing harm to the patients.

Job description:

A Pharmacovigilance professional does the following:

• Track all adverse event reports received and completed;
• Review and assess all source documents, and compile data in an adverse event report;
• Data enter report into the safety database;
• Code adverse events in the safety database;
• Perform labeling assessment of adverse events, comparing adverse event to adverse events previously reported and contained in the product label;
• Release report to safety database

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