Published in:
01-10-2007 | Abstracts
Oral Presentations
Authors:
J. McEwen, I. W. Boyd
Published in:
Drug Safety
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Issue 10/2007
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Excerpt
A World Health Organization consultation[1] in 2006 has recommended, amongst other things, that countries are encouraged to report adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) through their government’s designated national pharmacovigilance centre. In Australia, the primary point for submission and initial assessment of reports of AEFIs was changed to be the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC), in whose name the national pharmacovigilance centre has functioned since 1971. The work of ADRAC is supported by an Adverse Drug Reactions Unit in the Australian Department of Health. …