Dubrall, Diana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8763-051X
Christ, Patrick https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3197-5639
Domgörgen, Severin
Schmid, Matthias https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0788-0317
Sachs, Bernhardt https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8260-0891
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM)
Article History
Received: 2 May 2024
Accepted: 18 June 2025
First Online: 3 July 2025
Declarations
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: DD and MS are supported by the ANKA project, a cooperation project, which is founded by the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices and the Institute for Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology at the University Hospital Bonn. All other authors have no competing interests.
: The ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of Bonn waved the need for approval since this is not required retrospective analyses based on pseudonymized spontaneous reports and stated that there are no ethical concerns (file no. 458/20 and 100/21). For this study, informed consent to participate was not applicable. No surveys or examinations were carried out on patients. The analysed data is routinely collected for patients treated with drugs in everyday life situations. The drug therapy does not follow any study protocol. The spontaneously report adverse drug reactions are stored in the database EudraVigilance from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Among others, pharmaceutical companies, physicians, pharmacists and patients can report these ADRs (information concerning the reporting channels see Dubrall et al., 2018 (25)). Further information concerning the processing of personal data in the context of the operation of EudraVigilance Human can be found in the European Medicines Agency’s Data Protection Notice for EudraVigilance Human (- human-ev_en.pdf). The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as a national competent authority is granted with the highest level of access to EudraVigilance since one of the core duties of the BfArM is to analyse EudraVigilance data in order to fulfill its pharmacovigilance obligations. Information concerning the privacy policy and data processing of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices can be found here: . We confirm that all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.