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Adverse Event Reports |
An adverse drug
reaction is any undesirable experience associated
with the use of a medicine in a patient. Adverse
Event Reports
are reports of adverse drug reactions. These reports
can and should be be filed by anyone who has
experienced an
adverse drug reaction or knows someone who has.
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Adverse Event
Reports have specific outcomes: Death, Life
Threatening Condition, Hospitalization, Disability,
Congenital Abnormality
(Birth Defect), Required Intervention to Prevent
Permanent Impairment/Damage and Other. An Adverse
Event may have more than one
outcome. For example, the person may have been
hospitalized and then died. In addition, a drug may
be assigned to an adverse event
report as a primary suspect, a secondary suspect,
concomitant (occurring at the same time) or
interaction. |
Drug Alert
presents a summary of Adverse Event Reports for any
selected drug. The summary is based on the most
recent year of available
reports. The summary includes only those reports
where the drug was listed as the primary suspect in
the adverse event. Only the 30 most
reported reactions are shown. |
| NOTE: An
Internet connection is required to see the Adverse
Reaction Report summaries.
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