Clinical Research & Clinical Trials

Post Marketing Surveillance

Post marketing surveillance is an important component of the science of pharmacovigilance, which entails monitoring the safety of pharmaceutical goods and medical devices after they are introduced to the market. Because clinical trials—involving relatively few individuals who typically do not have additional medical conditions that exist in the general population—are the foundation for the acceptance and approval of drugs and medical devices, post-marketing surveillance can further hone, or confirm, the safety of a drug or device after it has been used in the general population by numerous individuals with a variety of medical conditions.