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Enrollment
Health care professionals are encouraged to report
any instances of prenatal exposure to a Registry product as early
in pregnancy as possible by calling the Merck Pregnancy Registry
at 1-800-986-8999 or by downloading and completing the attached
forms and faxing them to the registry.
Criteria for enrollment include:
- Report of
pregnancy from a patient or health care provider
- Exposure to a Merck product during pregnancy
(or, in the case of a vaccine, within 1-3 months prior to conception)
- Name of health care provider (to confirm diagnoses
and to obtain outcome information)
- Name of patient or, if you wish
to keep the report confidential, patient initials and one other
patient identifier, like date of birth or chart number, to allow
for follow-up at expected date of delivery
Information from the Registry is used to respond to
inquiries from health care providers who call to request information
on the use of a product during pregnancy. Data may be published
or used to update the pregnancy section of the product label as
appropriate. Dissemination of data collected in the Registry is
done without compromising individual patient confidentiality. Information
from the Registry is shared, as required, with regulatory authorities
(e.g., FDA).
We encourage health care providers to report
cases of exposure during pregnancy as early in the pregnancy as
possible to facilitate the collection of prospective, unbiased information.
Annual reports from the Pregnancy Registry contain
up-to-date information on product exposure during pregnancy and
can be requested by health care providers by calling 1-800-986-8999
or by downloading the attached Annual Report Request form and faxing
the completed form to the Registry at 267-305-6541.
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