The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Could Use Data It

question 36

Multiple Choice

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could use data it has collected from millions of suspected drug-related adverse event reports and other electronic medical information to identify a pattern of adverse drug events in a specific population. This data collected by the FDA would be held in a(n) ___________ .

• A) Internet database
• B) competitive intelligence source
• C) data warehouse
• D) data extraction
• E) information clearinghouse

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