title: Pharmacovigilance in Traditional Chinese Medicine safety surveillance.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To give an overview of the current status including problems and efforts about pharmacovigilance in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) safety surveillance.
  
  
  METHODS
  It is based on literature review and publicly available data in China.
  
  
  RESULTS
  TCM led to several adverse drug reactions (ADRs) during the past few years and pharmacovigilance about TCM remained as a problem though great effort had been made to improve it.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pharmacovigilance in TCM is still facing many challenges in playing critical roles in China. More attention should be paid to pharmacovigilance in TCM safety surveillance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: Hainan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaofei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Qingbin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yifeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Baozhang
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Yalin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012449:Safety; D013997:Time Factors