Pharmacovigilance

The pharmaceutical science pertaining to the "collection, identification, assessment, monitoring, and prevention" of adverse effects with pharmaceutical goods is known as Pharmacovigilance (PV, or PhV), also known as drug safety. Pharmakon (Greek for drug) and vigilare are the etymological sources of the phrase "Pharmacovigilance" (Latin for to keep watch). Consequently, pharmacovigilance puts a lot of emphasis on adverse drug reactions (ADR), which are described as any reaction to a drug that is unpleasant and unintended, such as a lack of effectiveness (the condition that this definition only applies with the doses normally used for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological disorder function was excluded with the latest amendment of the applicable legislation). Even without an adverse event, medication mistakes such overdosing, drug addiction, misuse, and exposure to drugs when pregnant or nursing are of relevance because they may trigger an unfavourable pharmacological reaction.