Fatal adverse drug reactions in children: A descriptive study in the World Health Organization pharmacovigilance database, 2010-2019.

Fatal ADRs represented a small part (around 1/1000) of total registered ADRs, occurred more frequently in boys and during the first 2 years of life. Beside anti-infectious drugs (vaccines), neuropsychiatric drugs were the most frequently involved, with large differences according to continents and classes of age.