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Table 1 European commission nomenclature for communicating frequency of adverse effects of drugs

From: Words or numbers? Communicating risk of adverse effects in written consumer health information: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Description

Frequency interval

Very common

(≥1/10)

Common

(≥1/100 to <1/10)

Uncommon

(≥1/1000 to <1/100)

Rare

(≥1/10000 to <1/1000)

Very rare

(<1/10000)

Not known

cannot be estimated from the available data