Uppsala Monitoring Centre

UMC works by collecting, assessing and communicating information from member countries' national pharmacovigilance centres in regard to the benefits, harm, effectiveness and risks of drugs.

A WHO global individual case safety report database (VigiBase) is maintained and developed on behalf of the WHO by UMC.

[5] UMC develops and provides several tools and classifications for use by organisations involved in drug safety, including the WHO Drug Dictionary – with a bridge to the MedDRA terminology and WHO ICD – tools for searching in the database, and a program for case report management, VigiFlow.

[8] The centre has been active in presenting research in the medical literature which has included some seminal works in the field.

[7] The Uppsala centre has also published books in the field of drugs safety including a regular newsletter.