Adverse drug reaction reporting using Best Practice: Installing the ADR reporting template

Medical practices using the Best Practice software can download and install templates to their software to create Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reports. 

Completed reports can be emailed to us at ADR.Reports@tga.gov.au, faxed to 02 6232 8392 or posted to us at: TGA, PO Box 100, Woden ACT 2606, Australia.

Before you start

This user guide assumes a working knowledge of Best Practice. For installation purposes you will need to be connected to the Internet in order to download the template from our website.

Download the ADR Reporting template

The ADR Reporting template can be accessed at: Best Practice: Adverse Drug Reaction report template (rtf,116kb).

Download the BP ADR Reporting Form.rtf from the TGA website and SAVE to the desktop.

Note: Do not OPEN the template - this may corrupt the merge fields.

Install the template in Best Practice

• Open Best Practice.
• Open the word processor ( or F4)
• Select Templates; Import template, as shown in figure 1.

• Select BP ADR Reporting Form.rtf.
• Select Save Icon – name the template 'BP ADR Reporting Form' and select the "Available to all users" tick box, as shown in figure 2.

• Select 'Save'.

Open the saved template

The template can now be accessed under 'Templates'; 'Use template', as shown in figure 3.

Using the template

A user guide is available for using the ADR Reporting template in Best Practice on our website.