Background Prior studies suggest that unintended medication discrepancies that represent
errors are common at the time of hospital admission. These errors are particularly worthy of …

Background: Over a quarter of hospital prescribing errors are attributable to incomplete
medication histories being obtained at the time of admission. We undertook a systematic review …

Idiosyncratic drug reactions are unpredictable reactions that can result in significant morbidity
and mortality. Severe idiosyncratic drug reactions are often characterised by fever and …

Although the anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome was first described in 1950,
confusion still abounds regarding the syndrome. The triad of fever, rash and internal organ …

The objective of this study is to identify gender‐related differences in the types of symptoms
and drugs reported to cause an adverse drug reaction. Patient data from the Sunnybrook …

Background: Because minocycline can cause serious adverse events including hypersensitivity
syndrome reaction (HSR), serum sicknesslike reaction (SSLR), and druginduced lupus, …

* The treatment dose of ribavirin has been reduced significantly from earlier recommendations
because of a lack of information to support the in vitro efficacy of ribavirin against the …

Background: Minocycline has been reported to cause serious, albeit rare, adverse events,
including serum sickness—like reaction, hypersensitivity syndrome reaction, and drug-…

Background: The incidence of Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal
necrolysis (TEN) has been reported to be between 0.95 and 1 per 1000 individuals with AIDS. …

Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) suppresses viral replication and augments CD4
T cell counts. HAART-associated immune restoration is often difficult to predict. We verified …