Background and Purpose: The national report system on the Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) in order to have better understanding and control has been designed and has been used in many countries including ours, but it seems the lack of reporting and feedback on the execution of this system. In this study we have tried to addition to the analysis of the knowledge level, attitude and performance of the Medical Doctors (MD'S) on the ADR to further analyze the familiarity and the ability to smoodly work with the national report system (The Yellow Card).

Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study by using a classical questionnaire of the European Food and Drug Administration has been used. The questionnaire was completed by 350 MD'S (General & specialist) in sity of Sari.

Results: The recognition level of MD'S from the yellow card system was about 24.9% from which 88% were general practitioners and 12% were specialists. 87.4% of all MD'S had a good recognition and understanding about the ADR in patients under their supervision but only 25% of them did report on it. The major reasons for not reporting is as follows: 63.5% for the lack of recognition and understanding of the national report system, 42.2% for having on importance attitude toward ADR,  36.1% for the uncertainty that ADR had a relation with the drug and 51.3% of all MD'S had an acceptable knowledge in the recognition of ADR.

Conclusion: The result of this study shows that in most of the cases the reason for not reporting in first place was due to the lack of information and understanding of such system and secondly the lack of desire to report due to lack of time and unreliability to the system. An other interesting point in this study shows the lack of knowledge of MD'S about the ADR specifically among the specialists from which the surgeons had a higher percentage.

Key word: knowledge, attitude, performance, ADR, medical doctor

 

 

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Informática en salud pública