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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2022

A Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis of Adverse Drug Reactions: A Scoping Review of Pharmacovigilance Databases.

Andreea C Brabete, Lorraine Greaves, Mira Maximos, Ella Huber, Alice Li, Mê-Linh Lê

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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49citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Andreea C BrabeteCentre of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Lorraine GreavesCentre of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6605-8836
Mira MaximosCentre of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6385-9718
Ella HuberCentre of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Alice LiCentre of Excellence for Women's Health, Vancouver, BC V6H 3N1, Canada.
Mê-Linh LêNeil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3M 3M1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7757-290X
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health · CAUniversity of British Columbia · CAUniversity of Manitoba · CAUniversity of Waterloo · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes for Health Research- Institute of Gender and Health and Health Canada SGBA+ Health Policy-Research Partnerships, 2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug-related adverse events or adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are currently partially or substantially under-reported. ADR reporting systems need to expand their focus to include sex- and gender-related factors in order to understand, prevent, or reduce the occurrence of ADRs in all people, particularly women. This scoping review describes adverse drug reactions reported to international pharmacovigilance databases. It identifies the drug classes most commonly associated with ADRs and synthesizes the evidence on ADRs utilizing a sex- and gender-based analysis plus (SGBA+) to assess the differential outcomes reported in the individual studies. We developed a systematic search strategy and applied it to six electronic databases, ultimately including 35 papers. Overall, the evidence shows that women are involved in more ADR reports than men across different countries, although in some cases, men experience more serious ADRs. Most studies were conducted in higher-income countries; the terms adverse drug reactions and adverse drug events are used interchangeably, and there is a lack of standardization between systems. Additional research is needed to identify the relationships between sex- and gender-related factors in the occurrence and reporting of ADRs to adequately detect and prevent ADRs, as well as to tailor and prepare effective reporting for the lifecycle management of drugs.

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adverse drug reactionsgenderlifecycle management of drugspharmacovigilancesexSGBA+

Identifiers

PMID35337096
PMCPMC8950058
OpenAlexW4214523030

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