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Comment & Response
January 11, 2021

Antiemetic Drugs During Pregnancy: What Can We Learn From Spontaneous Reporting System Database Analyses?—Reply

Author Affiliations
  • 1Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 3Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(3):327-328. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.5177

In Reply Recognizing that preapproval randomized clinical trials typically exclude pregnant individuals and that the evidence on pregnancy safety required for drug labels must come from postapproval studies,1 Mazhar et al make the case for spontaneous reporting system databases, such as the US Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System, as a highly valuable source of information about a drug’s safety and efficacy profile, particularly in frail populations.

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