The analysis of the safety profile of any medicine should weight up the consequences of a given adverse drug reaction to individual patients exposed to the medicine, as well as the impact on the community.

This course intends to:

• Remind you different measures of the incidence of a given adverse drug reaction (ADR)
• Describe one measure of the incidence that could be used to calculate the impact of a given ADR on the community
• Discuss different consumption measures for medicines and their use to estimate the ADR impact on the community
• Discuss a practical example

At the end of the course, you will know:

• Different risk estimates and its application to estimate the potential impact of an ADR at a community level, including the NNH

• The importance of consumption data to estimate the potential impact of an ADR at a community level

• The practical application of these calculations