TASK DEFINITION: Adverse drug reactions are appreciably harmful or unpleasant reactions resulting from an intervention related to the use of medical products, which predicts hazard from future administration and warrants prevention or specific treatment, or alteration of the dosage regimen, or withdrawal of the product. Given medical case reports extracted from MEDLINE, the task is to classify whether the case report mentions the presence of any adverse drug reaction. Classify your answers into non-adverse drug event and adverse drug event.
PROBLEM: Patients who develop these reactions whilst receiving GSTM can be successfully changed to aurothioglucose.

SOLUTION: non-adverse drug event

PROBLEM: On the 3rd day, an inferior vena cava (IVC) filter was placed with a heparin flush, after which massive IVC thrombosis developed.

SOLUTION: adverse drug event

PROBLEM: PURPOSE: To review the current literature on suspected green tea-related hepatic reactions and to describe two new cases reported within the framework of the Italian surveillance system of natural health products.

SOLUTION:
non-adverse drug event