MedDRA preferred term · a dose was missed

Drug dose omission: adverse event reports recording this term

165,466 reports to FDA record it, 2004–2018; 0.8% of the database.

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FDA adds: "There is no certainty that the reported event (adverse event or medication error) was actually due to the product. FDA does not require that a causal relationship between a product and event be proven, and reports do not always contain enough detail to properly evaluate an event." The information in these reports "cannot be used to estimate the incidence of these events."

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165,466
reports recording the term: 0.8% of all reports; 0
reports, 12 months to June 2026: 0 in the 12 months before; 23.2%
marked serious by the reporter: 57.4% across all reports; 0.8%
record death among outcomes, as reported: 9.1% across all reports

165,466 reports in FDA's adverse event database record the MedDRA term "Drug dose omission" (in plain words, a dose was missed): 0.8% of all reports received between February 2004 and September 2018. Coders pick the term that best matches the reporter's description.

0 reports recorded it in the 12 months to June 2026, and none in the 12 months before. FDA releases FAERS data quarterly, so the newest months are incomplete and grow in later releases. Of reports recording this term, 23.2% are marked serious, 0.8% include death among the outcomes and 12.1% include hospitalisation, as reported.

The drugs listed most often as suspect products in those reports are Enbrel, Nexium and Sensipar. That order mostly follows how many reports each drug has overall; the table also gives the term's share within each drug's own reports. FDA states that "a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report" and that for any given report "there is no certainty that a suspected drug caused the event."

Reports by month, five years

FDA releases FAERS data quarterly, so the newest months are incomplete and grow in later releases.

Drugs listed as suspect products in these reports

Drug	Class	Reports with this term	Share of the drug's own reports
Enbrel	Tumor necrosis factor blocker	11,069	2%
Nexium	Proton pump inhibitor	9,957	11.7%
Sensipar	Calcium-sensing receptor agonist	8,672	21.2%
Humira	—	8,024	1.3%
Seroquel	Atypical antipsychotic	5,447	10.4%
Repatha	PCSK9 inhibitor	4,913	3.2%
Symbicort	Corticosteroid	3,210	8.2%
Forteo	Parathyroid hormone analog	3,114	3.1%
Simponi	Tumor necrosis factor blocker	2,755	3.9%
Humalog	Insulin analog	2,706	3.8%
Otezla	Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor	2,453	1.8%
Avonex	Interferon beta	2,144	1.8%
Neulasta	Leukocyte growth factor	2,089	2.6%
Dulera	Corticosteroid	1,972	27.2%
Stelara	Interleukin-12 antagonist	1,960	2.3%
Ampyra	Potassium channel blocker	1,930	3.4%
Crestor	HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor	1,866	4.2%
Revlimid	Thalidomide analog	1,750	0.5%
Advair Diskus	Corticosteroid	1,702	8.3%
Tecfidera	—	1,698	1.5%
Risperdal Consta	—	1,614	11.9%
Asmanex	Corticosteroid	1,447	30.1%
Daytrana	Central nervous system stimulant	1,402	10.2%
Sumatriptan Injection Usp 6 Mg/0 5 Ml	—	1,394	52.1%
Xarelto	Factor Xa inhibitor	1,331	1%

Drugs with a page on this site, ordered by the number of their reports recording this term. The last column is the term's share within that drug's own reports, against 0.8% across the whole database. FDA states that adverse event reports "represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product", that "common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product", and that the data "by themselves are not an indicator of the safety profile of the drug or biologic."

By pharmacologic class

Class	Reports with this term	Share of class reports	Median drug in class
Tumor necrosis factor blocker	15,082	1.4%	0%
Proton pump inhibitor	12,602	2.6%	0.1%
Corticosteroid	12,217	1.5%	0%
Atypical antipsychotic	9,198	1.3%	0.2%
Calcium-sensing receptor agonist	8,676	18.4%	0%
Insulin analog	5,455	1.9%	0.6%
PCSK9 inhibitor	5,242	2.9%	1.4%
Parathyroid hormone analog	3,221	3%	2.5%
Interferon beta	2,805	1.6%	1.2%
Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor	2,553	1.7%	0.2%

Classes ordered by count. Class shares follow the class's overall report volume as much as anything else.

Patients in these reports

Patient age

Under 20.3%416

2 to 111%1,727

12 to 171%1,632

18 to 4411.8%19,490

45 to 6426%43,003

65 to 7410.3%17,059

75 and over6.9%11,427

Age not given42.7%70,712

Patient sex

Female60.4%99,923

Male32.7%54,145

Not given6.9%11,398

Grey bar: all 20,646,523 reports in the database. 95.8% of these reports give the United States as the country.

Questions about "Drug dose omission"

What does "Drug dose omission" mean in an adverse event report?

In plain language: a dose was missed. It is a MedDRA preferred term, the dictionary FDA uses to code what a reporter described. The report's own description is not published by openFDA and is not shown here.

How many reports record drug dose omission?

165,466 reports through June 2026 (0.8% of all reports), 0 of them in the latest 12 months.

Which drugs appear most often in these reports?

Enbrel (11,069), Nexium (9,957), Sensipar (8,672), Humira (8,024) and Seroquel (5,447). Drugs with many reports overall lead almost every term's list. FDA states that adverse event reports "represent a small percentage of total usage numbers of a product", that "common products may have a higher number of adverse events due to the higher total number of people using the product", and that the data "by themselves are not an indicator of the safety profile of the drug or biologic."

Does a drug appearing here mean it was responsible for this reaction?

No. FDA states that "a causal relationship cannot be established between product and reactions listed in a report" and that for any given report "there is no certainty that a suspected drug caused the event."

I have this symptom. What should I do?

This site cannot assess anyone. A pharmacist or clinician can; for an emergency, call the local emergency number. Nothing on this page is medical advice.

Where this comes from. Counts are built from the openFDA Drug Adverse Event (FAERS) bulk export released 28 Sep 2026, which holds reports FDA received through 30 Jun 2026. Drug names are as reported, resolved to the brand or generic name on the FDA label where openFDA's harmonisation matched them; classes are the pharmacologic class (EPC) from the label and the National Drug Code Directory of 17 Sep 2026. Terms are pooled across spelling and capitalisation variants of one MedDRA preferred term. No report narrative, lot number, patient detail or reporter identity is published. See the methodology and sources; FDA's record is authoritative, and corrections are handled within five working days.

Drug data (FAERS) through 30 Jun 2026; device data (MAUDE) through 31 Aug 2026. Not medical advice.