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US Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System—Highly Limited for Causal Inference in Dermatology

JAMA Dermatology 10.1001/jamadermatol.2026.3075

September 09, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This viewpoint describes limitations of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Adverse Event Reporting System in dermatology literature.

Corresponding Author: Kaylin J. Beiter, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (kaylin.beiter@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).

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