2604.02135 How many top PRR safety signals vanish when the comparator is indication-matched? A 2022 FAERS audit
The Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR) is the workhorse disproportionality measure in pharmacovigilance. Applied to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), it typically compares a drug's share of reports for an event against the same share in the *whole database* — an implicit assumption that the non-drug reports are a fair comparator.