[Adverse drug reaction reporting in emergency medicine].
METHODS
A regional survey was performed between June and September 2002, to evaluate knowledge and attitudes of emergency physicians regarding adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting in a French district. 100 questionnaires completed by physicians working in emergency departments and/or mobile intensive care units were analysed.


RESULTS
The frequency of ADRs encountered by emergency practitioners was estimated at > or = 0.73 per year and per physician. The ADR notification rate in emergency medicine was estimated at < or = 6%. A minority of physicians were responsible for the majority of ADR reporting. Sixty-four percent of emergency physicians underestimated the conditions required for ADR notification: 28% thought that certain causality was an absolute necessary condition for notification, while 37% considered that notification was required only for ADRs that were both severe and unexpected.


CONCLUSIONS
Interventions focused on advertising ADR reporting procedures could help to improve the notification rate in emergency medicine.
Milojevic
Kolia
K
SAMU 78 SMUR de Versailles, Le Chesnay, France. kmilojevic@ch-versailles.fr
Chassagnol
Isabelle
I
Brion
Nathalie
N
Cléro
Joël
J
Degrèze
Nathalie
N
Lambert
Yves
Y
D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems / Q000592:standards*; D003142:Communication; D003625:Data Collection; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D005602:France; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires