[Financial analysis of hospitalizations for adverse effects of drugs. The economic role of the Regional Pharmacovigilance Center]. / Analyse financière des hospitalisations pour effects indésirables. Rôle économique du Centre Régional de Pharmacovigilance.

Authors look at different methodological estimations of costs induced by hospitalizations for side effects of drugs: individual, global and budgetary estimations. Only the two last ones are possible today. Results are sufficient to demonstrate the economic importance of a Pharmacovigilance Centre for the Hospitals that have got such a structure.