An Examination of the Awareness, Attitude and Practice of Health Care Professionals to Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting in Asaba, Delta State
An Examination of the Awareness, Attitude and Practice of Health Care Professionals to Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting in Asaba, Delta State
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Every day, a large number of drugs are introduced onto the market around the world. Nevertheless, due to a lack of understanding, the safety of medicines remains a key worry for many demographic groups. An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "any deleterious, inadvertent, and unwanted reaction to drugs when used for prevention, diagnosis, or treatment at therapeutic doses or for the modification of physiological malfunction that prevents accidental or deliberate overdosage or drug maladministration" (Aspinall,2002). Predictable and dose-related ADRs, unpredictable and nondose-related ADRs, both dose and...
