Introduction:

pharmacovigilance is the discipline that deals with the collection, follow-up, investigation, assessment and evaluation of information from health professionals and patients on adverse drug reactions; incomplete knowledge of this discipline is currently one of the greatest weaknesses of modern therapeutics.

Objective:

to evaluate knowledge and practices of Pharmacovigilance in medical personnel working at the “Enrique Cabrera” Hospital in Havana about the most commonly used drugs in patients with cardiovascular diseases and the most frequent comorbidities.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out, the universe consisted of 410 physicians and the sample consisted of 80 of them chosen at random. Data were collected through the application of an anonymous questionnaire.

Results:

Specialists represented 81.25% and physicians without teaching category 70%. There was a predominance of respondents with inadequate knowledge about the concept of Pharmacovigilance (70%) and its importance (55%); there was an adequate level of knowledge about the drugs that are appropriately prescribed according to the most frequent diseases and there was an inadequate identification of the drugs causing rhythm disorders (70%).

Conclusions:

a large percentage of the staff has a deficient knowledge of pharmacovigilance due to lack of knowledge of its generalities, but not in relation to adverse drug reactions. There is a deficiency in the knowledge of the drugs most used in daily medical practice and which cause rhythm disorders. Intervention measures are required to reverse this situation.

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