Table 2 Total number of unique annual reports (NRtotal) and the number of reports after excluding all reports containing solely coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines (NRwoVAC) in VigiBase®, Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) and Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report database (JADER) in the 5-year period comprised between 2017 and 2021.

From: Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the spontaneous reporting and signal detection of adverse drug events

Year

VigiBase®

FAERS

JADER

NRtotal

NRwoVAC

NRtotal

NRwoVAC

NRtotal

NRwoVAC

2017

1,357,005

1,357,005

1,021,985

1,021,985

54,181

53,985

2018

1,179,527

1,179,527

1,126,467

1,126,467

57,559

57,304

2019

1,322,441

1,322,441

1,151,674

1,151,670

56,796

56,603

2020

1,978,356

1,977,547

1,086,215

1,086,202

46,107

45,932

2021

2,982,785

1,514,748

1,038,473

1,038,293

74,329

61,305

Total

16,301,971

14,833,125

15,188,324

15,188,124

716,309

700,130

  1. As reference, the total number of unique reports (up to 31/Dec/2021) in the integrated spontaneous reporting systems (SRSs) are also provided (last row).
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