Adverse event - wikipedia Adverse event For the House episode, see Adverse Events. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2013 ) An adverse event ( AE ) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. An adverse event ( AE ) can therefore be any unfavourable and unintended sign ( including an abnormal laboratory finding ), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal ( investigational ) product, whether or not related to the medicinal ( investigational ) product. AEs in patients participating in clinical trials must be reported to the study sponsor and if required could be reported to local ethics committee. Adverse events categorized as `` serious '' ( results in death, illness requiring hospitalization, events deemed life - threatening, results in persistent or significant disability / incapacity, a congenital anomaly / birth defect or medically important condition ) must be reported to the regulatory authorities immediately, whereas non-serious adverse events are merely documented in the annual summary sent to the regulatory authority. The sponsor collects AE reports from the local researchers, and notifies all participating sites of the AEs at the other sites, as well as both the local investigators ' and the sponsors ' judgment of the seriousness of the AEs. This process allows the sponsor and all the local investigators access to a set of data that might suggest potential problems with the study treatment while the study is still ongoing. Contents 1 Types of adverse events 2 Reporting of adverse events 3 Grades of AE 4 Database of adverse events 5 See also 6 References 7 External links Types of adverse events All clinical trials have the potential to produce AEs. AEs are classified as serious or non-serious ; expected or unexpected ; and study - related, possibly study - related, or not study - related. For example, while a study that tests the effectiveness of a new blood pressure cuff for a period of 10 minutes might seem innocuous, the potential exists for the patient 's skin to be irritated by the device. Patients in that study might also die during that 10 - minute period. Both skin irritation and sudden death would be considered AEs. In this case, the skin irritation would be classified as not serious, unexpected, and possibly study - related. The death would be classified as serious and unexpected ( unless the patient was already at death 's door ). The local researcher would use his / her medical judgment to determine whether the death could have been related to the study device. Both the skin irritation and the death are unexpected events, and should alert the researcher to the potential existence of a problem with the device ( for instance, it could have malfunctioned and shocked the patient ). The researcher would report these AEs to the local Institutional Review Board and to the sponsor, and await direction on whether to stop the study. If the researcher feels there is an imminent danger posed by the device, he or she can use medical discretion to stop patients from participating in the study. An adverse event can also be declared in the normal treatment of a patient which is suspected of being caused by the medication being taken or a medical device used in the treatment of the patient. In Australia, ' Adverse EVENT ' refers generically to medical errors of all kinds, surgical, medical or nursing related. The most recent available official study ( 1995 ) indicated 18,000 deaths per year are a result of hospital care. The Medical Error Action Group is lobbying for legislation to improve the reporting of AEs and through quality control, minimize the needless deaths. Reporting of adverse events Main article : Monitoring in clinical trials Researchers participating in a clinical trial must report all adverse events to the drug regulatory authority of the respective country where the drug or device is to be registered ( e.g. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) if it is US ). Serious AEs must be reported immediately ; minor AEs are ' bundled ' by the sponsor and submitted later. Grades of AE Clinical trial results often report the number of grade 3 and grade 4 adverse events. Grades are defined : Grade 1 Mild AE Grade 2 Moderate AE Grade 3 Severe AE Grade 4 Life - threatening or disabling AE Grade 5 Death related to AE Database of adverse events The FDA provides a database for reporting of adverse events called the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database ( MAUDE ) ( 1 ). The data consist of voluntary reports since June 1993, user facility reports since 1991, distributor reports since 1993, and manufacturer reports since August 1996, and is open for public view. Two private companies have also recently started providing access to analyzed adverse event information : Clarimed provides adverse event information for medical devices and AdverseEvents provides adverse event data for drugs. See also Clinical trial Good clinical practice ( GCP ) Data monitoring committees Serious adverse event Adverse effect Adverse drug reaction Pharmacovigilance EudraVigilance ( European Union ) Directive 2001 / 20 / EC ( European Union ) Adverse Event Reporting System References Jump up ^ ICH GCP Jump up ^ Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events External links ClinicalTrials.gov from US National Library of Medicine ICH Website FDA Website Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adverse_event&oldid=812854023 '' Categories : Clinical research Pharmaceutical industry Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from May 2013 All articles needing additional references Pages using div col with deprecated parameters Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español 日本 語 Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 30 November 2017, at 07 : 09. About Wikipedia

Question: mandatory elements in the definition of an adverse event (ae)
Answer: any unfavourable and unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of a medicinal (investigational) product, whether or not related to the medicinal (investigational) product