• Xin-E Guo, Yu-Bin Zhao, Yan-Ming Xie, Li-Cai Zhao, Yan-Feng Li, and Zhe Hao.
• Shijiazhuang City Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050000, China. mitianci@163.com
• Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi. 2013 Sep 1; 38 (18): 2974-8.

ObjectiveTo establish a nurse based post-marketing safety surveillance model for traditional Chinese medicine injections (TCMIs).MethodA TCMIs safety monitoring team and a research hospital team engaged in the research, monitoring processes, and quality control processes were established, in order to achieve comprehensive, timely, accurate and real-time access to research data, to eliminate errors in data collection.ResultA triage system involving a study nurse, as the first point of contact, clinicians and clinical pharmacists was set up in a TCM hospital. Following the specified workflow involving labeling of TCM injections and using improved monitoring forms it was found that there were no missing reports at the ratio of error was zero.ConclusionA research nurse as the first and main point of contact in post-marketing safety monitoring of TCM as part of a triage model, ensures that research data collected has the characteristics of authenticity, accuracy, timeliness, integrity, and eliminate errors during the process of data collection. Hospital based monitoring is a robust and operable process.

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