- Evidence
- The information offered to support a treatment claim.
Keep the question small
- Does this source discuss the proposed product?
- Does it discuss the same problem?
- What result did it look for?
- What remains unknown?
- Can the clinician (the health professional evaluating your problem) explain how it applies here?
A report is another kind of evidence
An adverse event means an unwanted experience reported during medicine use.
A report by itself cannot establish the medicine as the cause of a problem. The FDA says the number of reports cannot establish how often the problem occurs.
A total alone does not tell you how many people had a problem out of everyone who used the medicine.