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Yellow Card scheme

noun/ˈjɛləʊ kɑːd skiːm/

C1CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The UK reporting system through which suspected adverse drug reactions and product defects are notified to the regulator.

Any suspected reaction to a newly licensed medicine should be reported via the Yellow Card scheme, however minor.

Topic: Pharmacy practice in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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