Patient reports on ADRs are a useful source of information on the safety of new therapies. However, drug surveillance cannot rely on patient reports only, since even life-threatening events were not reported as ADRs by the patients who failed to associate them with the therapy. When coding patient reports on ADRs to a standard coding system, the differences in language and terminology between patients and physicians should be taken into account.
patients report a higher number of ADRs than their treating physicians. Patients report subjective symptoms impacting on quality of life more frequently than physicians. Patient-physician agreement on known or clinically relevant ARDs is high. Integration of patient reports on ADRs into clinical routine could enhance the patient-physician partnership and improve compliance as well as awareness of signs and symptoms of possible ADRs.
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