Guidance – Recording Adverse Drug Reaction Risks
Introduction
The Design Guidance – Recording Adverse Drug Reaction Risks document provides you with guidance and recommendations for recording adverse drug reaction risks. An adverse drug reaction is a negative physiological response to a pharmaceutical product,
where, in normal cases, the dosage administered would be non toxic. It enhances patient safety and clinical usability by:
- Ensuring clear and consistent recording of the presence, or absence, of past idiosyncratic reactions to a drug
- Ensuring that sufficient information is recorded about a patient's adverse drug reactions to enable
the clinician to decide whether or not to prescribe a drug
or to determine whether a patient's symptoms are attributable to a reaction
- Avoiding the likelihood of the offending drugs being administered to the patient again