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. 2017 Sep 30;4(4):199–213. doi: 10.1007/s40801-017-0118-5

Table 4.

Frequency of adverse drug reactions in relation to prescriptions

All age groups, 0–101 years Children, 0–17 years
All AMPS All non-AMPs All AMPS All non-AMPs
Patients of prescriber physicians
 ADRs, Grades I–IV 67 612 37 574
 Prescriptions 94,734 148,413 59,265 120,638
 ADRs/prescriptions (%) 0.071 0.412 0.062 0.453
 Patients with ADR 65 569 36 532
 Patients with prescriptions 12,956 11,652 9,162 8,550
 Patients with ADR/with prescriptions (%) 0.502 4.88 0.393 6.22
Patients of all physicians
 ADRs, Grades III–IV only 7 82 2 59
 Prescriptions 311,731 405,814 193,851 243,560
 ADRs/prescriptions (%) 0.002 0.020 0.001 0.024
 Patients with ADR 7 82 2 59
 Patients with prescriptions 44,662 39,473 28,355 25,587
 Patients with ADR/with prescriptions (%) 0.016 0.208 0.007 0.231

ADRs adverse drug reactions, AMPs anthroposophic medicinal products, non-AMPs all medicinal products except AMPs