WHO Drug Information Vol. 20, No. 4, 2006 - World Health ...

WHO Drug Information Vol 20, No. 4, 2006
Recent Publications,
Information and Events
Vigiflow Online for
pharmacovigilance
The validation of Vigiflow case report
management system has now been
completed and version 3.0 was successfully
released in February 2006.
The Vigiflow web-based software allows
seamless electronic transmission of
adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports in
(ICH) E2B format from healthcare professionals
to their designated reporting
centres and onwards to the WHO database
or other destinations such as the
European medicines Agency (EMEA) or
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The majority of reports so far submitted to
the WHO database via Vigiflow have
been received from Switzerland. Brazil,
Ghana and Morocco — all active members
of the WHO Programme on International
Drug Monitoring — are using it to
send in their ADR reports, plus eight other
member national centres.
Vigiflow offers significant benefits,
including:
• No need for local software or hardware.
• Unlimited number of users.
• Simple, secure ADR reporting in E2B
format.
• Improvement of report quality.
• Extensive optional data fields and freetext
entries.
• Live access to latest versions of terminologies
(WHO-DD, MedDRA, WHO-
ART) .
• Streamlined reporting.
• Report download for local storage.
• Multilingual.
• Built-in statistics and data retrieval.
• Cost-effective and time-saving.
• User guide and online help available.
Reference: The Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
http://www.who-umc.org
Scientific plant names
and synonyms
The Uppsala Monitoring Centre’s work on
herbal synonyms in the form of lists of
accepted scientific names and their latin
and vernacular synonyms has now been
published.
Reference: The Uppsala Monitoring Centre.
http://www.who-umc.org
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