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Why is Literature Search Important in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance is a domain that works completely on drug safety through collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects associated with pharmaceutical products. It is a science that needs no introduction these days, thanks to increased vigilance in pharmaceutical drug discovery and development, as well as the introduction of new products to the market. For Drug safety or pharmacovigilance, data will be collected from different sources to understand and assess the drug, either in its development stage while doing clinical trials or after releasing it into the larger population to understand its safety and efficacy in a wide range of populations. Spontaneous reports, clinical trial reports, literature reports, license partner reports, and regulatory reports are major types of reports that a company receives and processes for further analysis on regulatory reporting, signal detection, and aggregate reporting. Out of different source data, literature case reporting is one of the important inputs as the literature reports sometimes come with a combination of information from other report types as well. This makes it more important for companies to collect the literature information about the cases or articles involved with their drug. Literature article collection is required for assessing the benefit-risk
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