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An adverse drug reaction (ADR) has been defined by the World Health Organisation [251] as “one which is noxious, unintended and occurs at doses used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy.” The detection of symptom side effects was discussed in chapter 16; in this section we shall consider only life-threatening events.
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Bulpitt, C.J. (1983). The Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions. In: Randomised Controlled Clinical Trials. Developments in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6358-4_18
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