Category Archives: Our research

Influencing the reporting of ADRs in Primary Care (ISOP 2012)

Posted on October 31, 2012 by admin

Our group is very keen to improve the reporting ADRs by primary care physicians. To this end we set up an experiment to try an increase the number of Yellow Cards in the West Midlands area of the UK. You … Continue reading →

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Angioedema and angiotensin-II receptor blockers

Posted on October 6, 2009 by admin

Angioedema is a rare serious adverse drug reaction (ADR) to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I), with an incidence of 0.1% to 1.0%. If untreated it can be life-threatening. Debate exists over the safety of switching to an angiotensin-II receptor blocker (ARB), … Continue reading →

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Recent Research Findings

Posted on December 11, 2007 by admin

The following are three posters this unit recently presented at ISOP 2007 in October of this year: Cox AR, Anton C, Marriott JF, Ferner RE. The paradox of low prescribers who are high reporters: correlates of spontaneous reporting of adverse … Continue reading →

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ISOP 2006

Posted on October 20, 2006 by admin

The Yellow Card Centre West Midlands staff attended the 6th annual conference of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance in Liege, Belgium. We displayed three research posters and delivered an oral presentation on a variety of subjects related to drug safety. … Continue reading →

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Chief Pharmacists' views of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting.

Posted on November 3, 2004 by admin

You can now download a PDF version of our poster presented at the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISOP) Annual Meeting in Dublin: Message from the top: Chief Pharmacists’ views of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting. Anthony Cox presents the poster at … Continue reading →

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