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01.10.2006 | Abstracts
ABSTRACTS: ISoP Annual Conference ‘Joining Forces for Managing Risks’ Liège, Belgium 11–13 October, 2006
verfasst von:
L. Muylle, Th. Roisin
Erschienen in:
Drug Safety
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Ausgabe 10/2006
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Background: Haemovigilance, a requirement of the EU Blood Directive 2002/98/EC, is defined as ‘a set of organised surveillance procedures relating to serious adverse or unexpected events or reactions in donors or recipients of blood components, and the epidemiological follow-up of donors’. Notification is required for serious adverse reactions and, in contrast to the pharmacovigilance systems, for serious adverse events related to blood components. Blood establishments (BE) and hospitals have to report. Its purpose is to identify and prevent events and reactions in the chain from donor to recipient. In 2005 the Belgian Haemovigilance Centre (BHVC) was created in the DGMP-FPSH. …