Background: Medication-related visits to the emergency department are an important but
poorly understood phenomenon. We sought to evaluate the frequency, severity and …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence, preventability, category, and severity of drug-related
problems; medications involved; common causes of preventable medication-related visits …

Over the past few years, several published reports have addressed the problem of drug-
related morbidity in various practice settings. Studies evaluating drug-related hospitalization …

Objectives. To review the literature concerning drug‐related problems that result in
emergency department visits, estimate the frequency of these problems and the rates of …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Adverse drug events represent the most common cause of preventable
nonsurgical adverse events in medicine but may remain undetected. Our objective is to …

Objective Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of medicine-related problems, understood
as negative clinical outcomes, that result in hospital emergency department (ED) visits and …

BACKGROUND Given that adverse drug events result in extensive costs and healthcare
resource utilization, the goal is to better understand drug-related emergency department …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Our objectives are to describe the outcomes of patients presenting to
the emergency department (ED) because of an adverse drug event and to compare them …

The incidence and causes of drug-related hospital admissions and visits to an emergency
department were evaluated. A retrospective chart review was conducted to identify drug …

Objective: To analyse the contribution of adverse drug events (ADEs) to the overall number
of referrals or visits at an emergency department, to determine the proportion of more severe …