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Using VigiBase to Identify Substandard Medicines: Detection Capacity and Key Prerequisites

Overview of attention for article published in Drug Safety, February 2015
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Title
Using VigiBase to Identify Substandard Medicines: Detection Capacity and Key Prerequisites
Published in
Drug Safety, February 2015
DOI 10.1007/s40264-015-0271-2
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Authors

Kristina Juhlin, Ghazaleh Karimi, Maria Andér, Sara Camilli, Mukesh Dheda, Tan Siew Har, Rokiah Isahak, Su-Jung Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Pia Caduff, G. Niklas Norén

Abstract

Substandard medicines, whether the result of intentional manipulation or lack of compliance with good manufacturing practice (GMP) or good distribution practice (GDP), pose a significant potential threat to patient safety. Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting systems can contribute to identification of quality problems that cause unwanted and/or harmful effects, and to identification of clusters of lack of efficacy. In 2011, the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) constructed a novel algorithm to identify reporting patterns suggestive of substandard medicines in spontaneous reporting, and applied it to VigiBase(®), the World Health Organization's global individual case safety report database. The algorithm identified some historical clusters related to substandard products, which were later able to be confirmed in the literature or by contact with national centres (NCs). As relevant and detailed information is often lacking in the VigiBase reports but might be available at the reporting NC, further evaluation of the algorithm was undertaken with involvement from NCs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 5%
Unknown 40 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 21%
Student > Master 7 17%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Researcher 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 19%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 8 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Physics and Astronomy 2 5%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 11 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2020.
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#6,950,879
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#742
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Outputs of similar age
#78,935
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Outputs of similar age from Drug Safety
#13
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