Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety
Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety
2 PagesFACT SHEET Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety Consumers (patients), their relatives, and the healthcare providers who serve them are key observers of drug and medical device related adverse events that occur worldwide. Pharmacovigilance and patient safety (PVS) experts detect and assess this critical information to minimize risk to patients from potentially unsafe medicinal products. Now more than ever, regulatory authorities emphasize the importance of a comprehensive safety infrastructure. It is imperative to develop a risk management and minimization strategy that covers the entire product life cycle. At PRA, we apply versatile technologies and targeted data collection to safety reports received from multiple sources. From in-depth analysis of reported events, both individually
