Table 1.

Factors that may encourage pharmacists to report adverse drug reactions

Factor1	Agree	Disagree	Bateman et al. [10]2,4	Belton et al. [11]2,4
The reaction is of a serious nature	278 (99.3%)	2 (0.7%)	947 (80.2%)***	247 (95%)**
The reaction is unusual	276 (98.6%)	4 (1.4%)	1122 (95.0%)3*	232 (89%)***
The reaction is to a new product	278 (99.3%)	2 (0.7%)	1068 (90.4%)***	237 (91%)***
Certainty that the reaction is a true ADR	229 (82.4%)	49 (17.6%)	NA5	129 (49%)***
The reaction is well recognised for a particular agent	35 (12.7%)	241 (87.3%)	709 (60%)***	NA5

¹Number of pharmacists responding to each question varied from 276–280.

²Number (and percentage) agreeing with statement.

³Respondents asked if ‘severity’ is an important factor in deciding to send in a Yellow Card.

⁴P values were calculated using χ² tests comparing responses from either Bateman et al. (n = 1181) [13] or Belton et al. (n = 261) [12] with the responses from pharmacists:

^*P<0.01

^**P<0.001

^***P<0.0001

⁵NA: not applicable since question was not asked in the survey.