Object:

The article proposes a pharmacovigilance knowledge review, the provisión of information on suspicion of AMR, which is both a moral duty for the doctor and other health professionals and an aspect of patient care and the underreporting of them.

Materials and methods:

The review was carried out in the databases LILACS, PAHO, SciELO, EMBASE, PubMed and Infomed, the Google search engines and Google Scholar where keywords were placed for the search of the information in original articles, theses, other articles of bibliographic review and high citation index journals published from 1937 to 2017, in Spanish or English.

Results:

Consequently 100 articles were identified, 30 of which were selected as verified tools to update the concepts related to Pharmacovigilance discipline. There are several factors in clinical practice that can hinder the detection of ADR and it could contribute to under-reporting.

Conclusión:

In pharmacovigilance the under-reporting is a global reality, noting that most of the analyzed publications come from Europe (Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) and in Latin American countries such as Colombia, recognize low reporting rates.

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