Send a message to the show! Spontaneous adverse event reporting from healthcare professionals and patients is a cornerstone in pharmacovigilance systems. Unfortunately, it is a well-known issue that only a fraction of events is reported. To further complicate matters, poor quality reports present a significant challenge for pharmacovigilance assessors. In Ug ... Show More
Feb 2026
#44 Rethinking medical device safety, part 2 – Omar Aimer
Send a message to the show!Medical device pharmacovigilance is complicated. Alongside clinical safety, there are technology risks, from cybersecurity threats to outdated software, that can put patients at risk. In this two-part episode, Omar Aimer, President of ISoP and former co ... Show More
21m 22s
May 2022
Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials
<p>JAMA Associate Editor Ethan Basch, MD, and Melanie Calvert, PhD, from the University of Birmingham, UK, discuss barriers to and strategies for including rigorous patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials, and reflect on Dr Calvert's recent JAMA paper on related ethical impl ... Show More
14m 26s
Feb 2022
How do we measure quality of care? A conversation on EHRs and research, with A.J. Holmgren, PhD.
A.J. Holmgren, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of medicine at UC San Francisco, discusses EHR quality measurement, quality of care and patient outcomes. This episode is part of the Health IT series by the AMA-MSS Committee on Health Information Technology, hosted by ... Show More
26m 16s
Nov 2021
Doctor Informed - The patterns which emerge
When you hear the reports from a major patient safety issue, it will be shocking to hear how they have played out - but the patterns in behaviour, of people and institutions which have gone disastrously wrong, can be seen throughout healthcare.
As this first series of Doctor Inf ... Show More
31m 29s