| アブストラクト | OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to describe adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reported for children aged 0 - 17 years in Ghana. METHODS: Paediatric reports submitted by the Ghana National Centre for Pharmacovigilance to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global ADR database, VigiBase up to December 2012 were extracted. The data were analysed for number of reports per year, types of reporters and suspected ADRs and drugs. RESULTS: A total of 343 reports for children were received during the period. The drug classes most frequently reported were vaccines (115, 31%), antimalarials (106, 28%) and antibiotics (57, 15%). Of the top 20 individual drugs, 19 were anti-infectives. The most frequently reported ADRs were injection site infection, fever and rash. There were 23 deaths reported, and antimalarials were implicated in 12 cases. CONCLUSIONS: Vaccines, antimalarials and antibiotics are the leading medicines reported to cause ADRs in Ghanaian children. There was a high mortality rate, with many of the deaths due to causes explained in the individual case safety reports. |
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| ジャーナル名 | Expert opinion on drug safety |
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| Pubmed追加日 | 2015/10/06 |
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| 投稿者 | Cliff-Eribo, Kennedy Obebi; Choonara, Imti; Dodoo, Alex; Darko, Delese M; Sammons, Helen |
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| 組織名 | a 1 The University of Nottingham, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Academic;Division of Child Health , Derby, UK mzxkoc@nottingham.ac.uk.;b 2 University of Ghana, School of Medicine and Dentistry, WHO Collaborating;Centre for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance , Accra, Ghana.;c 3 Food and Drugs Authority, National Pharmacovigilance Centre , Accra, Ghana. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26436964/ |
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