Drug-related visits to a district hospital emergency room

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 212-217

  Juntti Patinen, Laura ^a   Kuitunen, Tapio ^b   Pere, Pertti ^b   Neuvonen, Pertti J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Porvoo Hospital   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; CARDIAC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; HEPARIN; IBUPROFEN; INSULIN; LITHIUM; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; METOCLOPRAMIDE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; QUINIDINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SEX HORMONE; TAMSULOSIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; CHILD; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DYSPEPSIA; ECZEMA; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SPASM; NAUSEA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEIZURE; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; URINE RETENTION; URTICARIA; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINITIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VERTIGO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DRUG INTERACTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; OVERDOSE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 33645082491     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2006.pto_264.x     Document Type: Article

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