Drug Safety Matters

#2 Why we should listen to patients – Linda Härmark

May 20, 2020 Uppsala Monitoring Centre
Drug Safety Matters
#2 Why we should listen to patients – Linda Härmark
Show Notes

As the end users of medicines, patients can provide first-hand information on side effects. The issues they report add a richness to our understanding of medicine safety that we could never achieve by relying on healthcare professionals’ reports alone – so it’s crucial that we listen to them. Linda Härmark from the Netherlands pharmacovigilance centre Lareb tells us more.

Tune in to find out:

  • What patient reports reveal about people’s use of medicines
  • How to make best use of the information relayed by patients
  • What to consider when setting up a patient reporting system

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If you’d like to hear more from the Netherlands pharmacovigilance centre Lareb, check out this interview with Eugene van Puijenbroek on intuitive and clinical reasoning.

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