id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-024833-e6vcf4un nan Forum 2019-12-19 .txt text/plain 8110 391 48 Approximately 80% of US hospitals rely on data and recommendations from the ECRI Institute to protect patients from unsafe practices and ineffective products, while the ISMP's efforts to improve safety in patients have resulted in changes to clinical practice and public policy, including improvements in drug labelling, packaging, preparation and administration. The FDA has now announced the availability of a draft document entitled "Best Practices in Drug and Biological Product Postmarket Safety Surveillance for FDA Staff", which outlines the agency's approach to timely postmarketing analyses of drugs and biologics, and "includes a high-level overview of tools, methods, and signal detection and evaluation activities, using varied data sources, for drug safety surveillance to provide a broader context and a general overview of our overarching effort and commitment in this area", says Woodcock. Analysis of spontaneous ADR reports to the European Medicine Agency's EudraVigilance database has identified new safety signals for asthma drugs in paediatric patients, say authors of a study published in Drug Safety. ./cache/cord-024833-e6vcf4un.txt ./txt/cord-024833-e6vcf4un.txt