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Pharmacovigilance PRR/ROR

Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR) and Reporting Odds Ratio (ROR) are statistical methods for detecting safety signals in spontaneous adverse event reporting databases. Developed and formalized by researchers in the early 2000s, these measures identify drug-adverse event associations that warrant further investigation.

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  1. Szarfman, A., Tonning, J. M., Doraiswamy, P. M., & Osgood, D. J. (2002). Pharmacovigilance in the post-marketing setting: establishing causal links between drugs and adverse events. Drug Safety, 25(9), 619-631. DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200225090-00001
  2. van Puijenbroek, E. P., Bate, A., Leufkens, H. G., Lindquist, M., Orre, R., & Egberts, A. C. (2002). A comparison of measures of disproportionality for signal detection in spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, 11(1), 3-10. DOI: 10.1002/pds.668

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ScholarGatePharmacovigilance PRR/ROR (Proportional Reporting Ratio and Reporting Odds Ratio for Pharmacovigilance). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/pharmacology/pharmacovigilance-prr-ror