Adverse-drug-reaction related admissions to a hospital in Scotland

Pharmacy World and Science

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 854-862

  Hopf, Yvonne ^a   Watson, Margaret ^b   Williams, David ^a  

^a ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reaction; Hospital admission; Non prescription drug; OTC medicines; Prescription medicines; Scotland

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXICILLIN; BENDROFLUMETHIAZIDE; CELECOXIB; CISPLATIN; DICLOFENAC; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; DOXAZOSIN; FENTANYL; IBUPROFEN; LEFLUNOMIDE; LETROZOLE; MELOXICAM; MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; OLANZAPINE; OXALIPLATIN; PERINDOPRIL; PREDNISOLONE; RAMIPRIL; SIMVASTATIN; SPIRONOLACTONE; TRAMADOL; VENLAFAXINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; DEHYDRATION; DIGOXIN TOXICITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG FATALITY; DYSPNEA; DYSRHYTHMIA; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GARLIC; GASTRITIS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMATEMESIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MELENA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIC SEPSIS; NIGHTMARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHARMACIST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; SCREENING; SIDE EFFECT; SYNCOPE; THROMBOCYTE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VOMITING; WARD;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHARMACISTS; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 56549087244     PISSN: 09281231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11096-008-9240-5     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. WHO. Safety of medicines - a guide to detecting and reporting adverse drug reactions. 2002.
2. M Pirmohamed AM Breckenridge NR Kitteringham BK Park 1998 Forthnightly review: adverse drug reactions BMJ 316 1295 8
3. N Muehlberger S Schneeweiss J Harford 1997 Adverse drug reaction monitoring - cost and benefit considerations. Part 1: frequency of adverse drug reactions causing hospital admissions Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 6 3 S71 7
4. M Pirmohamed S James S Meakin C Green AK Scott TJ Walley 2004 Adverse drug reactions as cause of admission to hospital: prospective analysis of 18,820 patients BMJ 329 15 9 10.1136/bmj.329.7456.15
5. L Hitchen 2006 Adverse drug reactions result in 250,000 UK admissions per year BMJ 332 1109 10.1136/bmj.332.7550.1109
6. CF Green DR Mottram PH Howe M Pirmohamed 2000 Adverse drug reactions as a cause of admission to an acute medical assessment unit: a pilot study J Clin Pharm Ther 25 355 61 10.1046/j.1365-2710.2000.00298.x
7. RL Howard AJ Avery PD Howard M Partridge 2003 Investigation into the reasons for preventable drug related admissions to a medical admissions unit: observational study Qual Saf Health Care 12 280 5 10.1136/qhc.12.4.280
8. RM Hussain 2003 Case report: the sweet cake that reaches parts other cakes can't! Postgrad Med J 79 115 6 10.1136/pmj.79.928.115
9. RE Ferner JK Aronson 2005 National differences in publishing papers on adverse drug reactions Br J Clin Pharmacol 59 1 108 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2005. 02267.x
10. P Waller M Shaw D Ho S Shakir S Ebrahim 2005 Hospital admissions for 'drug-induced' disorders in England: a study using the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) database Br J Clin Pharmacol 59 2 213 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2004. 02236.x
11. D Williams J Feely 1999 Underreporting of adverse drug reactions: attitudes of Irish doctors Ir J Med Sci 168 257 61
12. CA Naranjo U Busto EM Sellers P Sandor I Ruiz EA Roberts 1981 A method for estimating the probability of adverse drug reactions Clin Pharmacol Ther 30 2 239 45
13. Rawlins MD, Thomas SHL. Mechanisms of adverse drug reactions. In: Davies DM, Ferner RE, de Glanville H, editors. Davies's textbook of adverse drug reactions. 5th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers; 1998. ISBN 0412824809.
14. J Hallas B Harvald LF Gram E Grodum K Brosen T Haghfelt 1990 Drug related hospital admissions: the role of definitions and intensity of data collection and the preventability of prevention J Intern Med 228 83 90
15. EB Wilson 1927 Probable inference, the law of succession, and statistical inference J Am Stat Assoc 22 209 12 10.2307/2276774
16. N Bhalla C Duggan S Dhillon 2003 The incidence and nature of drug-related admissions to hospital Pharm J 270 583 6
17. MK Ang-Lee J Moss C Yuan 2001 Herbal medicines and perioperative care JAMA 286 2 208 16 10.1001/jama.286.2.208
18. SM Carden WV Good RM Good 2002 Case report - garlic and the strabismus surgeon Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 30 303 4 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2002.00540.x
19. Committee on Safety of Medicines. Annual report (2002), NHS Scotland Edinburgh.
20. Teweleit S, Kuschel U, Hippius M, Goettler M, Bornschein B. Manifestation and possible prevention of adverse drug reactions (ADR) in pharmacotherapy of cardiovascular diseases. Med Klin. 2001;96(8):442-50. Manifestation and Praeventationsmoeglichkeiten unerwuenschter Arzneimittelwirkungen (UAW) in der Pharmakotherapie von Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen. doi: 10.1007/PL00002226.
21. RM Seymour PA Routledge 1998 Important drug-drug interactions in the elderly Drugs Aging 12 6 485 10.2165/00002512-199812060-00006
22. JD Rozich CR Haraden RK Resar 2003 Adverse drug event trigger tool: a practical methodology for measuring medication related harm Qual Saf Health Care 12 194 200 10.1136/qhc.12.3.194