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Anecdotes that provide definitive evidence
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Many adverse drug reactions are first reported anecdotally. Anecdotal reports, by which we mean either individual cases or small case series, are generally regarded as providing poor quality evidence. They therefore usually require formal verification through robust epidemiological studies or clinical trials, although a minority are actually verified. However, we propose that some adverse drug reactions are so convincing, even without traditional chronological causal criteria such as challeng...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmj.39036.666389.94
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- Journal:
- BMJ Journal website
- Volume:
- 333
- Issue:
- 7581
- Pages:
- 1267-1269.
- Publication date:
- 2006-12-01
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1468-5833
- ISSN:
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0959-8154
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- English
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- 2008-03-14
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- Copyright holder:
- J K Aronson & M Hauben
- Copyright date:
- 2006
- Notes:
- Citation: Aronson J. K. & Hauben, M. (2006) 'Anecdotes that provide definitive evidence', BMJ [Online], 333 (7581), 1267-1269. [Available at http://www.bmj.com/].
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