Articles tagged as 'PatientSafety'

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New podcast long read – Patient's advocate
The latest episode of the Drug Safety Matters podcast has dropped. Tune in to hear Marie Lindquist reflect on a career dedicated to patient safety.

Serious errors with two-component vaccines risk harm and damage trust
Medication errors can harm individual patients. But when errors also undermine trust in public health programmes, serious problems can ripple across entire communities.

International Medication Safety Network (IMSN) – Targeting medication errors
The International Medication Safety Network has medication errors in its sights, developing and distributing safety practices that promote medication safety.

Safety concerns with mesh implants – The regulator's voice
A regulator responds to the public outcry against patient harms suffered by women with surgical mesh implants.

MedSafetyWeek 2019
From 25-29 November, 2019, UMC and medicine regulatory authorities around the world will join forces for #MedSafetyWeek to raise awareness of side effects of medicines.

Building a patient safety culture in India
India is one of the biggest pharmaceutical markets in the world. Read about the key stakeholders and initiatives driving medicine safety in this dynamic and complex country.

Fifteen years of patient reporting
The Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb recognises there is a big leap between enabling patients to report and achieving more integrated patient involvement.

Empowering patients as partners – New podcast episode
A patient’s perspective can lead to new insights that traditional research may overlook. Yet how may we best harness their perspective to improve patient outcomes?

Safety concerns with mesh implants – The patient's voice
Following serious complications experienced by women with surgical mesh implants, patients and authorities alike believe tighter regulation on medical devices is needed.

What’s trending in pharmacovigilance? New podcast episode
In this festive edition of Drug Safety Matters, we wrap up the year that was and look ahead to the year that will be – with a little help from one of our friends.