title: Adverse drug reactions (ADRS) reporting: awareness and reasons of under-reporting among health care professionals, a challenge for pharmacists.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To measure awareness about adverse drug reaction (ADRs) reporting among doctors, pharmacists and nurses and to determine reasons of ADRs under-reporting in Pakistan.
  
  
  METHODS
  In present study, a self-administered questionnaire was used to measure the awareness level about ADRs reporting among health care professionals (HCPs) of Pakistan. This was a cross sectional study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of the respondents 51 % were physicians, 29.7 % pharmacists and 19.3 % were nurses. 65.5 % of HCP population observed ADRs, out of which only 57.4 % reported these in their respective hospitals. About 77.3 % of population understood the importance of reporting ADRs while 67.3 % of population agrees that pharmacists are chief personnel for the development of system. 71.8 % of HCPs agrees that ADRs are not reported because Community pharmacy lacks legally qualified pharmacists. Only 14.3 % of HCPs population knows that there is any ADR reporting organization in Pakistan.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study recommends the need of such reporting system and more than half of the studied population agreed that pharmacists are required in developing such system.
authors: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Sumbul
authors: S
authors: Shamim
authors: Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Syed Muhammad
authors: SM
authors: Sharib
authors: Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Saima Mahmood
authors: SM
authors: Malhi
authors: Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Sidrat-Ul
authors: SU
authors: Muntaha
authors: Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Hassan
authors: H
authors: Raza
authors: Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Saniya
authors: S
authors: Ata
authors: Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Ali Salman
authors: AS
authors: Farooq
authors: Department of Research, Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors: Mehwish
authors: M
authors: Hussain
keywords: ADR reporting; Awareness; Pharmacovigilance; Under reporting