1. Safety of Anthroposophic Medicinal Products: An Analysis of Adverse Drug Reactions from German Pharmacovigilance Databases
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Anja Glockmann, Miek C. Jong, Herman van Wietmarschen, Harald J. Hamre, and Erik W. Baars
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Database ,business.industry ,Nausea ,Patient exposure ,computer.software_genre ,Primary outcome ,Pharmacotherapy ,Spontaneous reporting ,Pharmacovigilance ,Medicine ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Original Research Article ,Drug reaction ,medicine.symptom ,business ,computer ,Reaction site - Abstract
Background Anthroposophic medicinal products (AMPs) are widely used in Europe and world-wide. Objective To determine the frequency of reported adverse drug reactions (ADRs) from all AMPs on the market, in absolute numbers and relative to the maximum daily administration doses (MDADs). Patients and Methods Retrolective safety analysis of AMP-related ADRs in pharmacovigilance databases of four AMP Marketing Authorisation Holders in Germany. For each ADR, information about the patient, outcome, causality and AMP was retrieved. Primary outcome was the frequency of reported ADRs relative to MDADs sold. Results In the period 2010–2017, a total of 5506 ADRs were reported that had occurred in 2765 different patients, comprising 370 different AMPs. A total of 104 ADRs (1.9%) were classified as serious. The frequency of ADRs for all AMPs was 1.50 per million MDADs. For serious ADRs the frequency was 0.03 per million MDADs. ADRs were more frequently reported with parenteral AMP administration (injections) than with oral or local administration (18.85 vs. 0.59 vs. 1.61 ADRs per million MDADs, respectively; p
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- 2021