Methods in Pharmacovigilance, this article will give you an overview of the pharmacovigilance methods and the concepts involved in it.

Definition of Pharmacovigilance as per WHO:  science and activities relating to detecting, assessing, understanding, and preventing adverse effects or any other medicine/vaccine-related problem.

Remembering the definition will help you understand the methods involved in PV clearly as you know PV is a surveillance activity for detecting adverse reactions, monitoring drugs for adverse events, etc. Coming to the monitoring of the ADR’s it can be done in active and passive ways

Here are the methods in Pharmacovigilance 

Active Pharmacovigilance Methods

Passive Pharmacovigilance methods.

• Active Pharmacovigilance methods involve active follow-up of patients and their treatment records, here active measures are taken to follow up and identify adverse events.
• Cohort event monitoring, Registry, and record linkage are active pharmacovigilance methods
• Passive Pharmacovigilance involves voluntary reporting of adverse events. This voluntary reporting can be done by healthcare professionals, patients
• Passive pharmacovigilance methods include spontaneous reporting, targeted reporting, and intensified reporting.

In the next article we are going tolearn in detail about each method