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The main objective of pharmacovigilance is the early detection of new adverse drug reactions. Health care professionals play a key role in safety surveillance, as they are frontline observers if serious and unexpected adverse effects occur. They are obliged to report their observations and suspicions to the regulatory authorities, thereby enabling the authorities to react in an appropriate and timely manner.
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Definitions: Adverse reaction. A response to a medicinal product which is noxious and unintended, Unexpected adverse reaction. An adverse reaction, the nature, severity, or outcome of which is not consistent with the summary of product characteristics.
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Stenver, D.I. (2014). Pharmacovigilance: When to Report Adverse Reactions to Contrast Media . In: Thomsen, H., Webb, J. (eds) Contrast Media. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2013_868
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