Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Adverse Events

An adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical trial participant during or following a medical intervention, drug, device, or procedure, whether or not it is causally related to that intervention. The concept is central to pharmacovigilance and clinical research, where adverse events ar…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 15× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2381-862X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

An adverse event is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical trial participant during or following a medical intervention, drug, device, or procedure, whether or not it is causally related to that intervention. The concept is central to pharmacovigilance and clinical research, where adverse events are systematically defined, graded by severity, assessed for causality, and distinguished from serious adverse events, which involve death, life-threatening outcomes, hospitalization, disability, or congenital anomaly. Adverse drug reactions are the subset judged to be caused by a medicinal product, and surgical or procedural adverse events likewise inform safety evaluation. Rigorous capture and reporting of adverse events underpin the benefit-risk assessment of therapies, regulatory decision-making, and the design and interpretation of randomized controlled trials. In Women's Reproductive Health, adverse-event monitoring is integral to evaluating the safety of contraceptives, hormonal therapies, fertility treatments, and interventions used during pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause, as well as screening and surgical procedures. The journal publishes peer-reviewed clinical research in which the safety and tolerability of interventions are assessed, including randomized, placebo-controlled trials and analyses of treatment-related outcomes. Correct understanding of adverse-event definition, attribution, and reporting standards is fundamental to the evaluation of therapeutic safety and to evidence-based clinical practice across women's health and medicine more broadly.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 15 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Adverse Events, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Women's Reproductive Health (ISSN 2381-862X).

Journal editorial board
Paolo Ivo Cavoretto · Italy Loc Nguyen · Hong Kong Matteo Schimberni · Italy

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