Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions – June 2014

In the July 2014 edition we explored the issue of the underreporting of adverse drug reactions. We asked doctors their reporting habits and 165 GPs responded.

Which of the following statements most closely aligns with what you do in reporting a possible Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) to the TGA?

If you had to put a figure on it, what proportion of possible adverse drug reactions do you report to the TGA??

ED. 39% of respondents to question 1 said they limited their reports to those they considered most serious (and another 12% said they mostly forgot to do this). In question 2, a similar proportion of GPs (43%) said their reporting to the TGA amounted to a quarter or less of ADR possibilities encountered, and another 23% said they did not report any ADRs.

How aware are you of the TGA’s Adverse Drug Reaction reporting methods??

ED. Only a third of our surveyed GPs knew of a method to report an ADR to the TGA.