• Kolia Milojevic, Isabelle Chassagnol, Nathalie Brion, Joël Cléro, Nathalie Degrèze, and Yves Lambert.
• SAMU 78 SMUR de Versailles, Le Chesnay, France. kmilojevic@ch-versailles.fr
• Therapie. 2004 Nov 1;59(6):611-4.

MethodsA regional survey was performed between June and September 2002, to evaluate knowledge and attitudes of emergency physicians regarding adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting in a French district. 100 questionnaires completed by physicians working in emergency departments and/or mobile intensive care units were analysed.ResultsThe frequency of ADRs encountered by emergency practitioners was estimated at > or = 0.73 per year and per physician. The ADR notification rate in emergency medicine was estimated at < or = 6%. A minority of physicians were responsible for the majority of ADR reporting. Sixty-four percent of emergency physicians underestimated the conditions required for ADR notification: 28% thought that certain causality was an absolute necessary condition for notification, while 37% considered that notification was required only for ADRs that were both severe and unexpected.ConclusionInterventions focused on advertising ADR reporting procedures could help to improve the notification rate in emergency medicine.

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