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## Abstract ## Introduction In Sweden, voluntary adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting started over 40 years ago to detect rare, serious, unexpected adverse, mainly type B, reactions. During the period 1965–2004, 92 000 reports were assessed. Since certain nurses are licensed to prescribe a limited number of drugs, nurses also form part of the reporting team. ## Aim To analyse the ADR reporting by nurses in Sweden. ## Methods All reports by nurses and other health‐care personnel entered into the Swedish ADRs database SWEDIS (Swedish Drug Information System) were retrieved for the 10‐year period 1995–2004 (Swedish population: 9 million). The intention was to analyse the nurses' reports from a quantitative and qualitative point of view. ## Results The total number of ADR reports has gradually increased during the past 10 years from 3000 to over 4000 in 2004 (465 per million inhabitants), an increase by 28%. All ADR reports originate from health care personnel. The nurses' contribution to the ADR reporting increased from 2–3% in the mid‐90s to 12% in 2004. The most common drugs involved in the nurses' reporting were various kinds of vaccines. Skin reactions dominated among the nurses'

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Author

Johanna Ulfvarson; Stefan Mejyr; Ulf Bergman

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1053-8569)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)