Background: In Germany, adverse drug reactions and events cause hospitalizations, which
lead to numerous thousands of deaths and several million Euros in additional health costs …

Ensuring patient safety in the management of medicines requires the efficient collection,
administration, analysis and distribution of huge amounts of data from different sources. This …

Pharmacovigilance is the science and activity relating to the collection, detection,
assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products …

Risk assessment during clinical product development needs to be conducted in a thorough
and rigorous manner. However, it is impossible to identify all safety concerns during …

As the adoption of information technology in healthcare is rising, the potentiality of moving
Pharmacogenomics from benchside to bedside is aggravated. This paper reviews the …

Background Adverse drug reactions are one of the most common causes of death in
industrialized Western countries. Nowadays, empirical data from clinical studies for the …

E-health technology is promoted as one of the most promising steps towards safer drug
treatment. E-health solutions offer a platform for standardization and information exchange …

Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment,
understanding, and prevention of adverse effects from medicines or vaccines …

Background The report from the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer
Health System in 1999 drew a special attention towards preventable medical errors and …

Community pharmacists are critically placed in the patient care chain being an extended
frontline within primary healthcare networks across Europe. They are trained to ensure safe …