TGA clarifies AE stats

June 17, 2014

THE Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has elucidated the difference between its medicines and vaccines adverse event report, stating that it received about 17,500 adverse events reports in 2013 and its half year report which said it received about 20,000 reports (PD 30 May). A spokesperson from the TGA said the medicines statistics excluded reports where causality was unclear or where no temporal relationship was identified between reported event and medicine. When these 2,604 reports were excluded from the total, the TGA received 17,452 adverse event reports in 2013, they said.

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TGA clarifies AE stats

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