Glossary Term

AE

Adverse Event (AE) is any unwanted medical occurrence in a patient receiving a treatment, not necessarily caused by the medicine, and commonly recorded in clinical trials to assess safety.

Illustration representing AE
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Related terms
ADR SAE PV
Further reading
Skelly et al. 2025 Wikipedia: Adverse Event Browse the HEOR resource database

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