Spontaneous reporting keeps growing in Italy
Spontaneous reporting data for Italy in 2012 will be shortly published by the AIFA1 portal. Numbers are once again surprising (Figure 1): more than 29,000 reports, with a 35% increase respect to 2011. The increase is higher for drugs (+41%) than for vaccines (+7%). The reporting rate (489 reports for one million inhabitants) has overcome countries with a strong tradition in Pharmacovigilance. For example, in the United Kingdom the yearly published data by MHRA show a quite stable reports-amount in the last 4 years, with a reporting rate of 409/million in 2012.2