Introduction

SurVigilance is designed to access and collect data from various safety databases located across the globe. The primary focus of this application is to provide a unified interface to researchers to access data on adverse events that may be associated with the usage of pharmaceutical drugs or vaccines.

Currently, SurVigilance supports the following databases:

• FAERS

• VAERS

• VigiAccess

• Lareb

• DAEN

• DMA

• Medsafe

Installation Overview

SurVigilance is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip install SurVigilance

Google Chrome is required to run SurVigilance. You can download it here: https://www.google.com/chrome/

Any operating system and architecture in which Google Chrome and other dependencies are available should be able to run this application.

Note: Chromium is different from Google Chrome. Please ensure that Google Chrome is installed.

Details on additional dependencies can be found in the Installation Guide.

Usage

The easiest way to use SurVigilance to download data is by running the following lines of code:

from SurVigilance.ui import UI

UI().run()

This would instantiate a Streamlit dashboard in browser, and you can use the graphical user interface to navigate between the various databases and download data.

Authors

• Raktim Mukhopadhyay Email: raktimmu@buffalo.edu

• Marianthi Markatou Email: markatou@buffalo.edu

Maintainer

Documentation

The documentation is hosted on Netlify at - https://survigilance.netlify.app/

A daily status of the tool’s health can be found at the Daily Status page.

Community

For installing the development version, please download the code files from the master branch of the GitHub repository. Please note that installation from GitHub might be buggy, for the latest stable release please download using pip. For downloading from GitHub, use the following instructions:

git clone https://github.com/rmj3197/SurVigilance.git
cd SurVigilance
pip install -e .

License

This project uses the GPL-3.0 license, with a full version of the license included in the repository.

Funding Information

The work has been supported by Kaleida Health Foundation Award # 82114.

Disclaimer

• SurVigilance is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by the administrators, maintainers, or owners of any safety databases it can access.

• All database names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

• We gratefully acknowledge the organizations that maintain the FAERS, VAERS, VigiAccess, Lareb, DAEN, DMA, and Medsafe databases, whose efforts make these datasets publicly accessible.