Agreement of expert judgment in causality assessment of adverse drug reactions.
Arimone Y, Bégaud B, Miremont-Salamé G, et al. Agreement of expert judgment in causality assessment of adverse drug reactions. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2005;61(3):169-73.
The investigators engaged five senior experts to review the relationship between a medication treatment and an adverse drug reaction. Agreement between the experts as to cause was poor. The authors suggest that a consensual, rather than individual, approach would more reliably determine the cause of adverse drug reactions.