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Pharmacist’s Knowledge, Practice and Attitudes Toward Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions

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Background: It is observed that the adverse drug reactions are one of the many reasons contributing in the deterioration of health and wellbeing. Objectives: This study was carried out to list the numerous elements affecting the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians towards pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reactions. Material and methods: A certain prepared questionnaire is performed over numerous pharmacies from the areas around in addition to the data collected from similar researches which performed the same method. Results: Based upon the findings of our study, we came to a vision of the superiority of pharmacists over pharmacy technicians when it comes to acknowledging how to deal with pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reactions. Conclusion: Pharmacists are more knowledgeable when it comes to ADRs than pharmacy technicians, yet both of them needs to go under training for enhancing their knowledge.  

DOI

10.12816/0044553

Keywords

KAP, ADR, Adverse drug reactions, pharmacovigilance

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70

Article Issue

7

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2081

Issue Date

2018-01-01

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2018-08-10

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2018-01-01

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1,224

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1,227

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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606

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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https://ejhm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Pharmacist’s Knowledge, Practice and Attitudes Toward Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions

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22 Jan 2023