Overview

Created in 2006, the advocacy committee’s main purpose is to make the Philippine College of Physicians (PCP) an advocate and leader for patient and medicine safety.

Its objectives include :

1. to inform on ways to develop the PCP as an organization responsive to global and national needs in the area of pharmacovigilance
2. to develop systems to promote patient safety through education and training, and reporting systems.

By the end of fiscal year 2006-2007, the committee was able to come out with a handbook entitled “Transforming to a Culture of Safety in the Philippines” authored by then committee chairperson, Dr. Kenneth Hartigan-Go. The handbook shares information on ADR reporting systems for the Filipino Internist, drug interactions, detecting substandard and counterfeit pharmaceutical products, among others.

Title: Transforming to a culture of safety in the Philippines.

Author: Kenneth Hartigan-Go, MD

Foreword

Chapter 1 - ADR Reporting systems for the Philippines Internist and how it fits into our Public health systems

Chapter 2 - Types of ADR/Pharmacovigilance Mechanisms

Chapter 3 - Drug Interactions, the dangerous ones

Chapter 4 - Finding Ways to Prevent Medication Errors

Chapter 5 - Vaccine-Related Injury [Dr. Lyndon Llamado & KHG]

Chapter 6 - Assessing Causality

Chapter 7 - Participating in Drug Trials - Do's and Dont's [Dr. Anthony Leachon]

Chapter 8 - Erice Declaration

Chapter 9 - Detecting Substandard and counterfeit pharmaceutical products

Chapter 10 - If patients get sicker with medicines, consider adverse drug reactions as a differential diagnosis

Last words of advice

About the Author

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