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标题：Why do we need pharmacists in pharmacovigilance systems?
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作者：Hale Z Toklu ; Edward Mensah
期刊名称：Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
电子版ISSN：1947-2579
出版年度：2016
卷号：8
期号：2
语种：English
出版社：University of Illinois at Chicago
摘要：Pharmacovigilance is the science and activity relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. Pharmacovigilance basically targets safety of medicine. Pharmacists have crucial role in health systems to maintain the rational and safe use of medicine for they are drug experts who are specifically trained in this field. Effective use of pharmacists’ workforce will improve the outcome of the pharmacotherapy as well as decreasing the global health costs.