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A qualitative exploration of the major challenges facing pharmacovigilance in Saudi Arabia

Hisham Aljadhey, Mansour A. Mahmoud, Thamir M. Alshammari, Mohammed Al-Dhaeefi, Hervé Le Louet, Susana Perez-Gutthann and Peter J. Pitts
Saudi Medical Journal September 2015, 36 (9) 1097-1102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.9.12125
Hisham Aljadhey
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
PharmD, PhD
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Mansour A. Mahmoud
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
B.Pharm, MSc
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Thamir M. Alshammari
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
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Mohammed Al-Dhaeefi
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
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Hervé Le Louet
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
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Susana Perez-Gutthann
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
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Peter J. Pitts
From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
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vol. 36 no. 9 1097-1102
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.9.12125
PubMed 
26318468

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received April 12, 2015
  • Accepted July 29, 2015
  • Published online September 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Hisham Aljadhey, PharmD, PhD⇑,
  2. Mansour A. Mahmoud, B.Pharm, MSc,
  3. Thamir M. Alshammari, MSc, PhD,
  4. Mohammed Al-Dhaeefi, B.Pharm,
  5. Hervé Le Louet, MD, PhD,
  6. Susana Perez-Gutthann, MD, PhD and
  7. Peter J. Pitts, BA
  1. From the Medication Safety Research Chair (Aljadhey, Mahmoud, Al-Dhaeefi), College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, University of Hail (Alshammari), College of Pharmacy, Hail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Henri Mondor University Hospital (Le Louet), Paris, France, RTI Health Solutions (Perez-Gutthann), Barcelona, Spain and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (Pitts), New York, United States of America
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hisham Aljadhey, Director of Medication Safety Research Chair, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: haljadhey{at}ksu.edu.sa
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