‘Extra work for no compensation’: Drop in GPs reporting drug reactions
More than a quarter of adverse event reports used to come from GPs, but now it is just 4%.
GPs’ involvement in reporting adverse drug reactions to the TGA has declined massively over the past 20 years, research shows.
The analysis of TGA reports from 2003 to 2016 found that the proportion coming from GPs went from 28% to just 4%, with hospital and community pharmacists taking over as key sources.
Despite this, patients were most likely to tell their GP about unexpected drug reactions, the researchers wrote in JMIR Public Health Surveillance.
They also found that measures introduced to encourage reporting, such as the black triangle on newly approved medicines, had a limited effect.
