AGES launches social media campaign to report adverse reactions
AGES Medical Market Surveillance launches a social media campaign from November 7 - 11, 2016 to increase willingness to report adverse reactions.
Vienna (OTS) - In addition to positive effects, medicinal products can also have potential side effects. While for most patients these medicines are safe and effective, side effects can also occur in individual cases. It is therefore particularly important that side effects of medicines are reported and evaluated. This will allow potential new risks to be communicated quickly downstream and better understood by physicians and patients.
- New role of patients: From reactive to proactive -TheAGES Medical Market Inspectorate or the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care, which is entrusted with the legal enforcement, are therefore dependent on side effects being reliably reported by patients or their relatives, physicians and pharmacists. In this way, even after a drug has been approved, the respective benefit/risk ratio can be continuously and comprehensively further evaluated, thus ensuring that all available drugs are also safe.
- Social media campaign across Europe -Unfortunately, adverse drug reactions are still reported to the authorities far too infrequently throughout Europe. The aim of the campaign is both to raise awareness and to significantly increase the number of reports in the future.At the heart of the campaign is an animation that tells the story of a patient who notices an adverse reaction. It then shows how he, and also his doctor or pharmacist, can report this side effect to the authorities and how this can increase drug safety for other patients as well.The campaign is part of the European Commission's Joint Action project "Strengthening Collaboration for Operating Pharmacovigilance in Europe" (SCOPE). The importance of national reporting systems for adverse drug reactions is thus brought into focus.
- Where can I report? - In Austria, adverse drug reactions can be reported directly to the Austrian Medicines Agency by patients as well as their relatives, physicians and pharmacists: Reporting of Adverse Reactions (http://www.basg.gv.at/pharmakov.../phv-meldung-online-vigiweb/). An adverse reaction reporting system such as that of the Austrian AGES Medizinmarktaufsicht or the Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (Bundesamt für Sicherheit im Gesundheitswesen) makes it possible to identify previously undetected adverse reactions to medicines as early and quickly as possible by means of appropriate reports.
AGES SOCIAL CHANNELS - Report adverse reactions YouTube - www.youtube.com/user/agesnews Facebook - www.facebook.com/agesnews Twitter - twitter.com/agesnews
Inquiries (technical)Dr. Christoph Baumgärtel, Tel.: 050555/36004E-Mail:christoph.baumgaertel@ages.atRückfragen (for media)Communications Management, Tel.: 050555/25000Email: presse@ages.at
