The Mississippi Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Program: The Beginnings to the Present

Abstract

The Mississippi Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Program was instituted in 1986 and is to be funded through 1992. The project was designed to stimulate the reporting of ADRs on a statewide basis. The project has been successful in increasing the numbers of ADRs reported from Mississippi, as well as enhancing the awareness of the positive features inherent in the reporting of ADRs externally from practitioners' practice sites. The project has encompassed a community and hospital component throughout. This manuscript lists activities to date, the analyses accomplished to analyze data derived from the project, and plans for the remaining three years of the project.