USERS OF A REGIONAL PHARMACOVIGILANCE CEN TER

We analyzed the users of the Bordeaux Regional Centre - defined as any person calling the Centre for an inquiry - between 1986 and 1991. Dur ing this 6-year period, 3,046 different users called our Centre. Among them, 2,578 (85 %) called the Centre for the first time during this p eriod and among them, more than 700 became regular users. The Bordeaux Centre works in regular cooperation with approximetaly 1,200 health p rofessionnals. This corresponds to the surveillance of 500,000 inhabit ants.