Emergency department visits for outpatient adverse drug events: Demonstration for a national surveillance system

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 197-206

  Budnitz, Daniel S ^a,b   Pollock, Daniel A ^b   Mendelsohn, Aaron B ^a,c   Weidenbach, Kelly N ^b   McDonald, Arthur K ^d   Annest, Joseph L ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Directorate for Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DERMATOLOGICAL AGENT; DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; INSULIN; LITHIUM; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; VACCINE; VITAMIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE DISEASE; FACE EDEMA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INFECTION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN DISEASE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 12444273621     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.09.020     Document Type: Article

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