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John Wiley Mann'S Pharmacovigilance by Andrews
Mann s Pharmacovigilance is the definitivereference for the science of detection, assessment, understandingand prevention of the adverse effects of medicines, includingvaccines and biologics. Pharmacovigilance is increasingly important in improving drugsafety for patients and reducing risk within the practice ofpharmaceutical medicine. This new third edition covers theregulatory basis and the practice of pharmacovigilance andspontaneous adverse event reporting throughout the world. Itexamines signal detection and analysis, including the use ofpopulation–based databases and pharmacoepidemiologicalmethodologies to proactively monitor for and assess safety signals.It includes chapters on drug safety practice in specific organclasses, special populations and special products, and newdevelopments in the field. From an international team of expert editors and contributors,Mann s Pharmacovigilance is a reference for everyoneworking within pharmaceutical companies, contract researchorganisations and medicine regulatory agencies, and for allresearchers and students of pharmaceutical medicine. The book has been renamed in honor of Professor Ronald Mann, whosevision and leadership brought the first two editions into being,and who dedicated his long career to improving the safety and safeuse of medicines.