What is known and Objective: Patient reporting to the Yellow
Card Scheme (YCS) for reporting adverse drug reactions
(ADR) has been available in the UK since 2005. By the end of
2009, 18% of the ADRs reported were submitted by patients.
Thus, some patients are aware of the scheme, but we do not
know how much awareness exists in the general population
and hence the true impact of patient reporting.
Methods: We added eight questions to a telephone omnibus
survey of the adult population of the UK, administered over
two weekends in January 2009.