Place de la pharmacovigilance a l’officine : enquête auprès des pharmaciens de la wilaya de Sétif

Abstract

Pharmacological vigilance is the science and activities of monitoring, evaluating, understanding and preventing drug damage and any other drug-related problems. Pharmacists play a very important role in identifying, recording, and reporting drug safety incidents. The purpose of our brief is to study the role of pharmacovigilance in the pharmacy in Sétif, and to suggest ways in which the pharmacy can further contribute to patient safety. . Our study is a prospective descriptive survey conducted in the wilaya of Sétif over a period of 13 December 2022 until 29 December 2022. We interviewed 100 pharmacists using a questionnaire. The majority of pharmacists surveyed (70%) reported their participation in adverse reaction reporting, a rate of (90%) are aware of the possibility of a drug adverse event occurring in patients presenting at the level of the pharmacy to report them. In addition, pharmacists report AEs over the telephone (89%), the majority of whom call on the physician (72%) and only (8%) pharmacists take the initiative to contact the CNPM for this purpose and this is due to a number of reasons. Finally, pharmacists are proposing solutions to stimulate adverse reaction reporting. In short, the pharmacist is obviously on the front line, helping to monitor and evaluate adverse reactions related to drug use, he can also inform patients of the possibility of reporting adverse reactions, and he must immediately report any suspected adverse reaction (either by the patient or by the pharmacist himself) to the Regional Centre for Pharmacovigilance or the doctor.