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Table 4 Risk-Profile

From: EVITA: a tool for the early EValuation of pharmaceutical Innovations with regard to Therapeutic Advantage

severity grading

frequency

therapy investigated

therapeutic standard

adverse events (AE)

   

grades 5 + 4

≥10%

-4.0

-4.0

   (death related to AE or life-threatening AE or disabling AE)

≥1%

-3.0

-3.0

 

≥0.1%

-2.0

-2.0

 

<0.1%

-1.0

-1.0

 

0

0

0

grade 3

≥10%

-2.5

-2.5

   (severe and undesirable AE)

≥1%

-2.0

-2.0

 

≥0.1%

-1.0

-1.0

 

<0.1%

0

0

 

0

0

0

grades 2 + 1

≥10%

-1.5

-1.5

   (moderate AE or mild AE)

≥1%

-1.0

-1.0

 

≥0.1%

-0.5

-0.5

 

<0.1%

0

0

 

0

0

0

Interactions

   

frequent or serious clinical consequence

 

-2.0

-2.0

occasional or may have clinical consequence

 

-1.5

-1.5

dose change

 

-1.0

-1.0

unlikely/probably or no clinical consequence

 

0

0

no information available

 

-1.0

-1.0

sum

 

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risk score

 

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  1. Risk Score Assessment. The severity grading is carried out according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 3.0 (CTCAE v3.0) [4], the frequency according to the Guideline on Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC) [5]