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BMC Clinical Pharmacology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Perceptions of doctors to adverse drug reaction reporting in a teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria Kazeem A Oshikoya*1,2 and Jacob O Awobusuyi3 Address: 1Pharmacology Department, Lagos State University College of Medicine, P.M.B 21266, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, 2Paediatrics Department, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria and 3Medicine Department, Lagos State University College of Medicine, P.M.B 21266, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria Email: Kazeem A Oshikoya* - med_modhospital@; Jacob O Awobusuyi - awojaco@ * Corresponding author Published: 11 August 2009 Received: 6 March 2009 Accepted: 11 August 2009 BMC Clinical Pharmacology 2009, 9:14 doi:10.1186/1472-6904-9-14 This article is available from: /1472-6904/9/14 © 2009 Oshikoya and Awobusuyi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting is the cornerstone of pharmacovigilance. ADR reporting with Yellow Cards has tremendously improved pharmacovigilance of drugs in many developed countries and its use is advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO). This study was aimed at investigating the knowledge and attitude of