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Table 4 Source of event notification

From: Monitoring adverse social and medical events in public health trials: assessing predictors and interpretation against a proposed model of adverse event reporting

Notifier

Total number of events reported (%)

Intervention

Control

Field researcher

1125 (85.5%)

603 (83.5%)

522 (88.0%)

Office-based researcher

75 (5.7%)

32 (4.4%)

43 (7.3%)

Family nurse

68 (5.1%)

67 (9.3%)

1 (0.2%)

Health visitor

14 (1.1%)

0 (0.0%)

14 (2.4%)

Midwife

5 (0.4%)

2 (0.3%)

3 (0.5%)

GP

1 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.2%)

Other medical professional

1 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (0.2%)

Unknown job rôle

1 (0.1%)

1 (0.1%)

0 (0.0%)

No name on form

25 (1.9%)

17 (2.4%)

8 (1.3%)

Total

1315

722

593