[Adverse drug reactions and a program of voluntary notification: an opinion survey of primary care physicians].
OBJECTIVE
To discover the view of primary care doctors on aspects of the safety of medicines, their knowledge of the programme of automatic notification of negative side-effects of medicines (NSEM), their opinion of the programme and factors affecting low notification.


METHODS
A survey of views.


METHODS
Madrid's Health Area 1.


METHODS
General practitioners and paediatricians (n = 417).


RESULTS
281 doctors (67.4%) replied. 88.4% (48 + 40.4%) said they included questions on possible side-effects in the case history interview (always or almost always). 58.2% suspected at least one negative side-effect each month.


CONCLUSIONS
Doctors are very interested in detecting and identifying the NSEM of their patients, and therefore believe that a centralised system to record NSEM should be set up.
Serrano Cózar
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Atención Primaria Area Sanitaria 1, INSALUD, Madrid.
Esteban Calvo
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C
Gijón Porta
J A
JA
Vaquero Turiño
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Vázquez Burgos
M I
MI
Ibáñez Ruiz
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C
Frías Iniesta
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J
D000328:Adult; D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires