Signal detection

In Safety & pharmacovigilance

Signal detection is the systematic search for new information suggesting a possible causal link between a medicine and an event that was not previously known. It combines statistical review of case databases with clinical judgment. A signal is a hypothesis to investigate, not a confirmed risk.

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