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March 3, 2026Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy0 citationsOpen Access

Class-level drug safety surveillance in hospital practice: A pharmacovigilance analysis of 84 therapeutic subclasses from a South Asian tertiary care center

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AUAbdullah UmerAga Khan UniversityAMAdam Khan MohmandAga Khan UniversityNKNaimal Mouzam KhanAga Khan University

Key Points

  • Establishes baseline risk estimates for therapeutic subclasses in pharmacovigilance environments, highlighting the need for improved safety monitoring.
  • Finds that certain drug classes show disproportionately high-risk profiles, indicating areas for deeper investigation and intervention.
  • Assessment indicates the robustness of the Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR) and Reporting Odds Ratio (ROR) as tools for drug safety evaluation.
  • Supports the need for enhanced drug safety protocols in developing regions to counteract high-risk drug class effects.

Abstract

This analysis establishes baseline class-level risk estimates in a developing pharmacovigilance environment, identifies disproportionately high-risk drug classes, and supports the robustness of PRR and ROR as complementary screening tools for regional drug safety monitoring.

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Umer et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a75f05c6e9836116a2a1behttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2026.100711
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