Pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacovigilance in pregnancy: experience of the regional service of clinical pharmacology

Abstract

One of the priority healthcare tasks is the prevention of congenital malformations at all stages – pregravidal, prenatal and postnatal. The analysis of 1306 pregnant women’ pharmacotherapy was carried out. 27,93% of the prescribed drugs were relatively safe for the fetus (category A, B). The most commonly used (36,12%) drugs were the ones with undetermined safety level (N FDA– Food and Drug Administration). In 35,93% of cases drugs with the risk of teratogenicity or embryotoxicity effects to the fetus (category C, D, X) were used.

Keywords

• pregnancy
• drugs
• prevention
• clinical pharmacology