Gold standards in pharmacovigilance: the use of definitive anecdotal reports of adverse drug reactions as pure gold and high-grade ore.
Gold standards in pharmacovigilance: the use of definitive anecdotal reports of adverse drug reactions as pure gold and high-grade ore.
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药物警戒的黄金标准:使用药物不良反应的明确轶事报告作为纯金和高品位矿石。
DOI:
10.2165/00002018-200629100-00086
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发表时间:
2007
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影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
J. Aronson
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作者:
M. Hauben;J. Aronson
Anecdotal reports of adverse drug reactions are generally regarded as being of poor evidential quality. This is especially relevant for postmarketing drug safety surveillance, which relies heavily on spontaneous anecdotal reports. The numerous limitations of spontaneous reports cannot be overemphasised, but there is another side to the story: these datasets also contain anecdotal reports that can be considered to describe definitive adverse reactions, without the need for further formal verification. We have previously defined four categories of such adverse reactions: (i) extracellular or intracellular tissue deposition of the drug or a metabolite; (ii) a specific anatomical location or pattern of injury; (iii) physiological dysfunction or direct tissue damage demonstrable by physicochemical testing; and (iv) infection, as a result of the administration of an infective agent as the therapeutic substance or because of demonstrable contamination. In this article, we discuss the implications of these definitive ('between-the-eyes') adverse effects for pharmacovigilance.