Drug Safety Issues Covered by Lay Media: A Cohort Study of Direct Healthcare Provider Communications Sent between 2001 and 2015 in The Netherlands.

Esther de Vries Petra Denig Sieta T de VriesTaco B M MonsterJacqueline Geertruida Hugtenburg Peter G M Mol

Published in: Drug safety (2021)

Newspapers covered a small proportion of DHPC safety issues only. Most drugs mentioned in DHPCs were covered in social media. Coverage in both media were higher for drugs without a specialist indication.

Keyphrases

social media
healthcare
health information
palliative care
primary care
drug induced