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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.

Pharmacovigilance teams routinely use disproportionality metrics — Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR), Reporting Odds Ratio (ROR), Information Component (IC), and Empirical Bayes Geometric Mean (EBGM) — to prioritize drug-event signals from spontaneous-report systems such as FAERS. Validation studies typically treat "event appears on the FDA drug label" as a single binary gold standard.