The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) data package contains information on medication errors, quality complaints and drug-related adverse events that were submitted to FDA in 2016.
FAERS data package is designed to support the FDA's post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. It is a useful tool for activities such as looking for new safety concerns that might be related to a marketed product, evaluating a manufacturer's compliance with reporting regulations and responding to outside requests for information. The reports in FAERS are evaluated by clinical reviewers, in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), to monitor the safety of products after they are approved by FDA. These reports are submitted to FDA by healthcare professionals (such as physicians, pharmacists, nurses and others) and consumers (such as patients, family members, lawyers and others). Healthcare professionals and consumers may also report to the products’ manufacturers who then send these reports to the FDA. The datasets in FAERS data package contain much relevant information such as patient demographics, drug name, dose and route of administration, diagnosis and indication for use, therapy starts and ends date and patient outcome.
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Data Package Complexity
Medium
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Keywords
Adverse Reaction, Adverse Events in Healthcare, Adverse Event Reporting Form, FAERS, Serious Adverse Event, Adverse Events Reporting System
Other Titles
FDA Adverse Event Reporting Guidance, Adverse Event Database by FDA 2016, FDA Post-Marketing Surveillance Reports 2016, FDA Drugs Causing Serious Adverse Effects 2016, FDA Reporting System of Adverse Effects 2016
Included Datasets
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Demographics 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Demographics data file contains patient demographic and administrative information, a single record for each event report.
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Drug 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Drug file contains drug/biologic information for as many medications as were reported for the event (1 or more per event).
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Drug Indication 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Indication file contains all "Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities" (MedDRA) terms coded for the indications for use (diagnoses) for the reported drugs (0 or more per drug per event).
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Drug Reaction 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Reaction file contains all "Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities" (MedDRA) terms coded for the adverse event (1 or more).
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Drug Therapy Dates 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Drug Therapy Dates file contains drug therapy start dates and end dates for the reported drugs (0 or more per drug per event).
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Patient Outcome 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Outcome file contains patient outcomes for the event (0 or more).
FDA Adverse Events Reporting System Report Source 2016
FAERS database is designed to support the FDA’s post-marketing safety surveillance program for drug and therapeutic biologic products. The Report Source file contains report sources for event (0 or more).
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Each dataset goes through 3 levels of quality review
2 Manual reviews are done by domain experts
Then, an automated set of 60+ validations enforces every datum matches metadata & defined constraints
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All null values are normalized to the same value
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Data updates support replace-on-update: outdated foreign keys are deprecated, not deleted
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Each dataset is manually curated by our team of doctors, pharmacists, public health & medical billing experts:
Field names, descriptions, and normalized values are chosen by people who actually understand their meaning
Healthcare & life science experts add categories, search keywords, descriptions and more to each dataset
Both manual and automated data enrichment supported for clinical codes, providers, drugs, and geo-locations
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) data package contains information on medication errors, quality complaints and drug-related adverse events that were submitted to FDA in 2017.