Pharmacovigilance in dental practice: A study to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADR) among dental practitioner in a city of central region of Maharashtra, India
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Dentistry - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Adverse drug reaction (ADR) is defined as a response of a drug which is noxious and unintended and which occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of a disease or for the modification of physiological function. These adverse drug reactions are an imperative public health crisis striking a substantial fiscal burden on the society and healthcare system. ADR leads to the number of medical and economic consequences like prolonged hospital stay, increased cost of treatment and risk of death also increases. Hence detection, recording and reporting of adverse drug reactions become vital. For this purpose the concept of pharmacovigilance has been formed. As a large number of dentist are using various drugs during treatment of dental problems. But various KAP studies performed on dentist shows that there is negligible role of dentist in pharmacovigilance programme. Material and Method: This was a cross sectional questionnaire-based study in which 106 private dental practitioners were involved who answered predesigned questionnaire prepared based on previous studies on knowledge, attitude and practices of pharmacovigilance. Result: The results were calculated by using MS-Excel spreadsheet and expressed in terms of percentage of observations. Conclusion: We conclude that 106 dentists in our study have poor knowledge about pharmacovigilance. They have good attitude towards practice of reporting ADR. But unable to report ADR due to lack of knowledge, lack of training of ADR reporting, non-remuneration of reporting, difficult to decide whether ADR has occurred or not.
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Ajinath Jadhav, Ajay Chandrikapure, Pooja Tarte (Jadhav)
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