OBJECTIVE: To apply recently published consensus panel guidelines to a series of hospital
inpatient charts to develop and validate a brief screening tool for potentially inappropriate …

Objective: To (1) develop and standardize explicit criteria to link clinical adverse events to
drug withdrawal,(2) determine the incidence and severity of Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) …

Background: Adverse drug reactions with an outcome of death represent the most serious
consequences and are inherently important for pharmacovigilance. The nature and …

Forty-seven patients older than 65 years were randomly selected for structured chart review
of all long-term medications documented during the prior year and the number of instances …

A registry offers one mechanism for counting the occurrence of various disorders in a
population; several have recently been described in CMAJ. 1-3 Basic information on …

The surveillance of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is an unqualified must. However, the
optimal means of surveillance is still unclear. Although anecdotal reports are the backbone …

A combined manual and computer search of the literature on the Canadian experience with
adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to prescribed drugs yielded a total of 23 articles. The risk of …

Objective—To examine drug‐related deaths due to adverse drug reactions between 1984
and 1994. Data source—Voluntary reports of deaths due to adverse events as reported to …

Publisher Summary The chapter deals with the usage and effects of antipyretic analgesics.
In the last few years, evidence has accumulated that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs …

The elderly receive proportionately more prescriptions than any other age group in Canada.
In a review of available English language studies in the Canadian literature, the author …