Unit of adverse drug reactions monitoring (UADRM), University Hospital of Pisa

The Unit of Adverse Drug reactions Monitoring of the University Hospital of Pisa is a key-element of the Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance. The main activities are represented by:a) Periodic analysis of Italian spontaneous ADR reporting database (in collaboration with Agenzia AIFA and the other Italian Regional Centres of Pharmacovigilance)b) Coordinating or participating centre to project of intensive monitoring of adverse drug reactions for specific drugs or in specific groups of patients. At January 2014,example of projects are:MEREAFaPS: intensive monitoring of adverse drug reactions in Emergency Department (national project coordinated by the Lombardy Region),ASTRAGALUS: registry of patients exposed to treatments with biotechnological drugs for rheumatologic indications (4 rheumatology centres in Tuscany),ANCESTRAL: study on ADRs and drug-drug interactions in elderly patients in primary and secondary carec) Drug safety studies by retrospective analysis of Hospital