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A process to detect, review, and make decisions about drug safety to protect patients.

Example of pharmacovigilance in a sentence

Scientific drug safety monitoring is called pharmacovigilance.

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Pharmacovigilance is the science of monitoring the effects of drugs and vaccines. It involves detecting, understanding, and preventing adverse events and determining whether observed events are caused by the drug or vaccine.

Pharmacovigilance happens during and after a research study, and after a drug is approved

Other info to think about when joining a study

The word “pharmacovigilance” is sometimes used in conversations about the risk and safety monitoring of a drug.

If you see this word and have any questions about how it is being used, you should ask the study team.

A slightly grayed out graphic depicting four stages of a clinical trial with four ascending platforms are at the top of the image. The platforms are numbered 1 through 4 with an icon of a questionnaire and pill indicating clinical trial just before the first platform and an arrow pointing away from the fourth. Platforms 1, 2 and 3 all have human icons standing with an increased number of humans per platform. The fourth platform depicts a pharmacy. At the bottom of the image is an arrow pointing right. At the leftmost post of the arrow is a cricle with a pill and a magnify glass. Below each of the 4 platforms are increasingly bigger icons made up of a cross and a check mark on a circle.

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