Incidence proportion ≈ report proportion

Further proof that report proportions of symptoms approximate their incidence proportions

Summary

For this article I compared the proportions of reports in the VAERS database containing various MedDRA terms with the incidence proportions of the symptoms they represent as specified in a Polish study based on a 19-question-questionnaire.

Our observations from the first article on this phenomenon are largely confirmed with a few exceptions, which…