Does patient reporting lead to earlier detection of drug safety signals? A retrospective comparison of time to reporting between patients and healthcare professionals in a global database:A Retrospective Comparison of Time to Reporting Between Patients and Healthcare Professionals in a Global Database

OBJECTIVE: To explore if there is a difference between patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) in time to reporting drug-adverse drug reaction (ADR) associations which led to drug safety signals. DESIGN: This was a retrospective comparison of time to reporting selected drug-ADR associations which led to drug safety signals between patients and healthcare professionals. SETTING: ADR reports were selected from the World Health Organization Global database of individual case safety reports, VigiBase. Reports were selected based on drug-ADR associations of actual drug safety signals. MAIN OUT... Mehr ...