Studies On The Current Situation, Problems And Countermeasures In The Monitoring System Of Adverse Drug Reaction In China

The safety of post-marketing drug is of great importance to everyone. The pharmaceutical industry has been flourishing in the market economy of the reform and opening-up, providing a number of different sorts medicines for clinical use. Multinational drug manufacturing enterprises have been flooding into China, and bring in various innovative medicines that clinic is in urgent need of. These medicines are indispensible to China’s health undertaking, providing important material support for the safeguard of people’s health. However, every drug has side effects. The safety is relative even though that drug is approved to be on market. At the same time of treating diseases, drug can also bring to people adverse reaction that is irrelevant to the treatment purpuse, which is so called drug adverse reaction. Therefore, drug safety is still the common goal pursued by all the drug administrations in the world. Carrying out the drug adverse reaction monitoring has become an important means of controlling post-marketing drug safety by the drug administration. As an important part of public safety, Establishing the monitoring system of drug adverse reaction is the duties and obligations that should be fulfilled by the government. It was expounded from the nature of drug about the history and the present situation of drug safety and adverse drug reaction monitoring at home and abroad in the paper, it was also discussed that the attributes of drug safety as a kind of public products, and the influence factors of the market failure on drug safety from the perspective of economics. The example of the practice of the drug adverse reaction monitoring in FujianProvince was taken to illustrate the features of the monitoring system of the adverse drug reaction in China, and to analyze the plight that the system encountered in the process of establishment. The corresponding solutions to the plight were suggested to the establishment of current monitoring system of adverse drug reaction:It is the top priority of making or perfecting laws and regulations relevant to the damage compensations of adverse drug reaction, secondly it is need to intensify the duties and status of the health administrative departments and medical institutions in monitoring adverse drug reaction. The third, it is essential to improve the technic about monitoring adverse drug reaction. The fourth, it was required to open the monitoring messages to public as for fully utilization. The fifth, it was urgent to reinforce monitoring and management mechanism of adverse drug reaction.