Authors: Yoon K Loke, Deirdre Price and Andrew Herxheimer on behalf of the Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group.
This chapter should be cited as: Loke YK, Price D, Herxheimer A. Chapter 14: Adverse effects. In: Higgins JPT, Green S (editors), Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0 (updated March 2011). The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available from www.handbook.cochrane.org.
Acknowledgements: The following colleagues (listed alphabetically) have contributed their expertise to the Cochrane Adverse Effects Methods Group, in helping develop this guidance: Jeff Aronson, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Andrea Clarke, Sheena Derry, Anne Eisinga, Su Golder, Tom Jefferson, Harriet MacLehose, Heather McIntosh and Nerys Woolacott.