Enliven: Pharmacovigilance and Drug Safety

The Need of Education, Awareness and Continuous Training in Pharmacovigilance
Author(s): Grigoris Agyralidis

Pharmacovigilance is a critical factor in today’s healthcare practice. Education, awareness and training, ensure its proper implementation and achievement of its goals. The need for this mainly focuses on four relevant stakeholders: healthcare sciences students, healthcare professional, pharmaceutical industry employees and patients. Although a lot of progress has taken place, there is still the need of a more structured approach, improvement and optimization; this has to focus on patients, which are the end users of healthcare services and the most important stakeholder in the life cycle of medicinal products.