UK veterinary professionals’ perceptions and experiences of adverse drug reaction reporting

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Davies, H, et al. (2022) UK veterinary professionals’ perceptions and experiences of adverse drug reaction reporting. Veterinary Record. p. e1796. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.1796

Summary

This paper reports on the findings of a survey asking questions about the barriers, perceptions, attitudes, and experiences of UK veterinary professionals towards adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting.

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Additional resources

Reporting adverse reactions

• RCVS Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Surgeons: Supporting guidance 4. Veterinary medicines. [Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons] [online]  Available from: https://www.rcvs.org.uk/setting-standards/advice-and-guidance/code-of-professional-conduct-for-veterinary-surgeons/supporting-guidance/veterinary-medicines/ [Accessed 14 September 2022]
• Report a suspected problem with an animal medicine or microchip [Veterinary Medicines Directorate] [online] Available from: https://www.gov.uk/report-veterinary-medicine-problem/animal-reacts-medicine [Accessed 14 September 2022]
• Veterinary Pharmacovigilance responsibilities for authorisation holders. [Veterinary Medicines Directorate] [online] Available from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/veterinary-pharmacovigilance-your-responsibilities [Accessed 14 September 2022] .
  Although primarily written for Marketing Authorisation Holders this includes useful definitions on the different types of adverse events that should be reported.
• Pharmacovigilance of veterinary medicines in Great Britain: Guidance – Adverse event reporting.  [Veterinary Medicines Directorate] [online] Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pharmacovigilance-of-veterinary-medicines-in-great-britain/adverse-event-reporting [Accessed 14 September 2022]
  Section 5 provides useful information on the information that is required in an adverse reaction report
• Pharmacovigilance: Monitoring the safety & efficacy of animal medicines [National Office of Animal Health] [online] Available from: https://www.noah.co.uk/briefingdocument/pharmacovigilance-monitoring-safety-efficacy-animal-medicines/  [Accessed 14 September 2022]
• Pharmacovigilance guidance [European Medicines Agency] [online] Available from: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/veterinary-regulatory/post-authorisation/pharmacovigilance/pharmacovigilance-guidance  [Accessed 14 September 2022]

Pharmacovigilance reports

• Veterinary medicines pharmacovigilance annual review reports [Veterinary Medicines Directorate] [online] Available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/veterinary-medicines-pharmacovigilance-annual-review-reports [Accessed 14 September 2022]
• European Medicines Agency (2020)Veterinary pharmacovigilance 2019: annual bulletin. Amsterdam: EMA. Available from: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/newsletter/public-bulletin-veterinary-pharmacovigilance-2019_en.pdf [Accessed 14 September 2022]
• EudraVigilance – European database of suspected adverse drug reaction reports. [European Medicines Agency] [online] Available from: https://www.adrreports.eu/ [Accessed 14 September 2022]

Medicines updates are published regularly in the Veterinary Record and the Vet Times. Lists of updates are also available from

• Product Information Database: Currently authorised products – recently updated. [Veterinary Medicines Directorate] [online] Available from: https://www.vmd.defra.gov.uk/ProductInformationDatabase/current/recently-updated [Accessed 14 September 2022]
• NOAH compendium: new and updated datasheets. [National Office of Animal Health] [online] Available from: https://www.noahcompendium.co.uk/?id=-312948&cid=-312948 [Accessed 14 September 2022]