Poster Presentations

Excerpt

Background: The spontaneous reporting of ADR is fundamental to the safety surveillance of market medicines, although a number of studies have suggested that fewer than 10% of ADR are reported. The underreporting reasons are not clear, nevertheless look like associate to inadequate knowledge and attitudes concerning to the ADR, in health professionals. With intention to reduce ADR underreporting in Northern Region of Portugal, we performed two studies in pharmacists and also physicians population; first a case-control study to identify knowledge-attitudes associated with underreporting and second a cluster randomised controlled trial to modify such knowledge and attitudes among an educative intervention. In this abstract we present the results of the second study (educative intervention) in pharmacists, that has as main objective the evaluation of the effectiveness of educational outreach visits to increase ADR reporting, and as others objectives assess the rate and relevance of reporting and the duration of the effect. …