Knowledge of adverse drug reaction reporting in first year postgraduate doctors in a medical college

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 307-312

  Upadhyaya, Prerna ^a   Seth, Vikas ^b   Moghe, Vijay V ^a   Sharma, Monika ^a   Ahmed, Mushtaq ^a  

^a GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Hind Institute of Medical Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

ADR reporting; First year postgraduate doctors; Pharmacovigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RESIDENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 84875310175     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: 1178203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/TCRM.S31482     Document Type: Article

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