Overview of all reports of suspected adverse reactions in Denmark
Monthly updates
The searchable information in the Interactive Drug Reaction (ADR) overview is updated until 12 March 2024.
We are transitioning to a new IT system for reporting adverse reactions and therefore the overviews are not updated at the moment. We are receiving and reviewing reported adverse reactions as usual. However, the search feature of our online system will remain unavailable until the new IT solution is fully implemented.
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Overview of all reports of suspected adverse drug reactions in Denmark
The interactive Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) overviews provide data about suspected adverse reactions reported in Denmark for a specific type of medicine. The information comes from the Danish Medicines Agency’s pharmacovigilance database, which contains all reported suspected adverse reactions since 1968 when the database was established. The database contains reports from healthcare professionals, patients and relatives.
Reports of suspected adverse reactions are an important source of information used to identify possible safety issues with medicines. We use reports of suspected adverse reactions to continually assess and analyse the safety of medicines on the market.
Before you start searching the interactive ADR overviews, it is important that you read the terms of use below. Once you have read and accepted the terms of use at the bottom of this page, you will be redirected to the search function
Reports of suspected adverse reactions only
When healthcare professionals, patients or relatives report an adverse drug reaction to the Danish Medicines Agency, it is only necessary to have a suspicion of a relation between the medicine taken and the symptoms experienced. Consequently, a report of a suspected adverse reaction does not necessarily mean that the medicine caused the reaction.
Assessment of relation to medicines is based on many aspects
Many aspects need to be considered when assessing whether a particular medicine has caused an adverse reaction. When the Danish Medicines Agency monitors the safety of medicines, we analyse all aspects thoroughly.
The risk of adverse reactions is not reflected in the overviews
The ADR overviews cannot be used to assess the risk of having an adverse drug reaction from a particular type of medicine. The reasons are that the database only contains information about suspected adverse reactions and does not contain information about how many patients have taken the medicine without experiencing adverse reactions. Furthermore, not all suspected adverse reactions are reported and the number of suspected adverse reactions reported for individual medicines vary greatly. Therefore, the numbers in the overviews cannot be used to compare risks of adverse drug reactions between different types of medicine. A report may also concern several medicinal products and will appear in several ADR overviews.
Information about known adverse reactions is available in the product information
The ADR overviews do not present a summary of the risks associated with the use of medicines. The evidence-based knowledge about adverse drug reactions associated with a particular type of medicine is available in the product information.
If you have any questions regarding the medicine you are taking, please contact your doctor or the pharmacy. You should not stop taking any prescribed medicine without consulting your doctor.
