Open AccessAn assessment of reported adverse drug reactions in a Tertiary Care Hospital in South India: A retrospective cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Sandeep Kumar Gupta,
K Deva Kumar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of pharmaceutical investigation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2230-973X
pISSN - 2230-9713
DOI - 10.4103/jphi.jphi_81_17
Subject(s) - pharmacovigilance , medicine , causality (physics) , kappa , drug reaction , adverse drug reaction , cohen's kappa , pediatrics , adverse effect , retrospective cohort study , statistic , drug , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics
The primary objective of this study was to assess the causality of ADRs using World Health Organization-Uppsala Monitoring Centre (WHO-UMC), Naranjo and Liverpool ADR Causality Assessment Tool (LCAT). Other primary objective was to assess the agreement between the WHO-UMC criterion, Naranjo algorithm and LCAT. The secondary objective was to assess the reported adverse drug reactions in a tertiary care hospital in South India.