Inter-expert agreement of seven criteria in causality assessment of adverse drug reactions

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 482-488

  Arimone, Yannick ^a   Miremont Salamé, Ghada ^a   Haramburu, Françoise ^a   Molimard, Mathieu ^a   Moore, Nicholas ^a   Fourrier Réglat, Annie ^a   Bégaud, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Causality assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; EVALUATION; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MEDICAL EXPERT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; WEIGHT;

EID: 34548644680     PISSN: 03065251     EISSN: 13652125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2007.02937.x     Document Type: Article

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