# Documenting causality assessments

VigiFlow allows you to record causality assessment results using four different methods:

* WHO-UMC
* Naranjo
* French Method (Bégaud’s imputability method)
* WHO AEFI (for adverse events following immunisation)

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If your organisation uses a different method, you can write it in the *Comments* field at the bottom of the section.
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To register an assessment, go to the “Assessment” section of the report:

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Multiple assessments can be added, if required, using the plus sign. This is useful if the reporter or sender made their own causality assessment, but the national centre uses a different method or disagrees with the initial assessment.

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Refer to the VigiFlow Intermediate Course: “**ICSR processing and content**” section → “Assessment”

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