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Promoting safety of medicines for children

Title
Promoting safety of medicines for children / World Health Organization.
Publication
Geneva : World Health Organization, ©2007.

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Additional Authors
World Health Organization.
Description
59 pages
Summary
Monitoring the safety of medicine use in children is of paramount importance since, during the clinical development of medicines, only limited data on this aspect are generated through clinical trials. Use of medicines outside the specifications described in the license (e.g. in terms of formulation, indications, contraindications or age) constitutes off-label and off-license use and these are a major area of concern. These guidelines are intended to improve awareness of medicine safety issues among everyone who has an interest in the safety of medicines in children and to provide guidance on effective systems for monitoring medicine safety in the pediatric populations. This book will be of interest to all health care professionals, medicine regulatory authorities, pharmacovigilance centers, academia, the pharmaceutical industry and policy-makers. Systems for monitoring medicine safety are described in Annex 1. Pharmacovigilance methods and some examples of recent information on adverse reactions to marketed medicines are discussed in Annex 2.
Subject
  • Drugs > Safety measures
  • Drugs > Toxicology
  • Drug monitoring
  • Pediatric pharmacology > Safety measures
  • Drugs > Side effects > Reporting
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Children
  • Chemotherapy
  • Drugs > Side effects
  • Infants
  • children (people by age group)
  • infants
  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Infants
  • Drugs > Side effects > Reporting
  • Drugs > Side effects
  • Children
  • Chemotherapy
  • Drug monitoring
  • Drugs > Safety measures
  • Drugs > Toxicology
  • Child
  • Drug Therapy
  • Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems
  • Drug Monitoring
  • Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
  • Infant
  • Safety Management
  • Product Surveillance, Postmarketing
Genre/Form
Guideline
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction -- Current situation -- The essential role of safety monitoring in the life-cycle of a medicine -- Medication errors -- Primary responsibility of stakeholders -- Guidance : measures to be taken -- Measures to be taken by WHO.
ISBN
  • 9789241563437
  • 9241563435
OCLC
  • ocn181104075
  • 181104075
  • SCSB-1453983
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library