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Pharmacovigilance Services in Vietnam

The National Center of Drug Information and Adverse Drug Reactions Monitoring centre (NDIADRMC) of the Ministry of Health (MOH) is responsible for pharmacovigilance services in Vietnam. This centre carries out the administrative functions of collecting, analyzing, and evaluating the adverse events reports from various sources and updating the PV database. It also assesses the benefit-risk balance and communicates drug-related risks. Until now NDIADRMC has been focusing on reporting ADR from healthcare professionals, national public health programs, and pharmaceutical companies to avoid misleading information from consumers and community pharmacists. In addition, pharmaceutical companies are required to submit a Periodic Safety Update Report, a Periodic Benefit Risk Evaluation Report, or a Safety Report along with a summary safety report in the Vietnamese language including details of both foreign and domestic ICSRs. ADRs can be reported online through the official NDIADRMC website specially deployed for ADR reporting.

As a leading global contender, DDReg understands the significance of patient safety right from clinical trials to post-marketing surveillance of medicinal products. As part of our safety services portfolio, we provide end-to-end pharmacovigilance services in Vietnam that include adverse drug reaction reporting, signal detection & management, aggregate report writing, development of customized pharmacovigilance plans/risk management plans in accordance with the local requirements and good pharmacovigilance practices.

DDReg pharmacovigilance Services portfolio include:

ICSR Processing and Submission

  • Triage of initial and follow-up ICSRs, SUSARs,
  • Case Processing through E2B(R3) compliant databases and other relevant databases integrated with Drug dictionary (WHO DD) and MedDRA
  • Quality Check, Medical reviews
  • Submission of cases as per agency timelines
  • Maintaining ICSR monitoring & tracking sheets
  • Reconciliation process with customers

Risk Management Plan

  • Drafting, reviewing, and maintaining RMPs and REMS while providing support through submission methods
  • Preparing customized procedures to classify safety risks and deliver tailored risk management strategies
  • Assessment of potential risks and missing information and prepare reports that recommend risk management methods
  • Implementation of supplementary measures, including Post-Authorization Safety Studies (PASS), such as developing academic materials, observational examinations, and targeted follow-up questionnaires
  • Effectively convey risks through labelling means such as Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) and patient information leaflet (PIL)

Aggregate Reports

  • Periodic Safety Update Report (PSURs)
  • Development Safety Update Reports (DSURs)
  • Annual Safety Reports (ASRs)

Signal Management

  • Identification new safety signals and/or changes in risks concerning a pharmaceutical product from ICSR database, Literature Monitoring, aggregate reports as well as regulatory agency website monitoring.
  • Utilizes a variety of in-house tools and databases for signal detection and tracking safety signal monitoring
  • Reviews safety signals for ICSRs, aggregate reports and recommendations by Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC)
  • Performs label update analysis
  • Provide recommendations from signal assessments which include risk minimization approaches
  • Preparation of Signal Management Tracker, Annual Signal Reports.

PV Services

  • Authoring/ Review of PSMF, SDEA agreements, agreements with commercial partners, PV SOPs etc
  • Monthly reconciliation
  • Medical review of Signal detection; Signal Surveillance Meetings (Quarterly)
  • Monthly Communication report/provision of compliance metrics
  • PV Quality Management System Oversight

PV Audit & Compliance

  • Review compliance audit to applicable PV guidelines, regulations, Safety Data Exchange Agreements (SDEAs), SOPs (standard operating procedures) and work instructions
  • Optimize well-constructed audit plans as well as mock audits to prepare customer organizations for PV inspections conducted by respective competent authority.
  • Conduct regular gap assessments of PV staff at site location
  • Provide organizational training on safety audits and inspections
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