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Article: Research on adverse drug reactions published by N. Britten et al.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 12, 2009
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"2. Little is known about how patients understand drug related problems or how they make attributions of adverse effects," investigators in Exeter, the United Kingdom report (see also Adverse Drug Reactions).
"Some research suggests that patients' cognitive models of adverse drug reactions bear a close relationship to models of illness perception. 3. Attributions of adverse drug reactions are related to people's previous experiences and to their level of education. The evidence suggests that on the whole patients' reports of adverse drug reactions are accurate. However, patients do not report all the problems they perceive and are more likely to report those that ...