Hospitalizations because of adverse drug reactions in elderly patients admitted through the emergency department: A prospective survey

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 475-482

  Olivier, Pascale ^a   Bertrand, Lionel ^b   Tubery, Marie ^b   Lauque, Dominique ^b   Montastruc, Jean Louis ^a   Lapeyre Mestre, Maryse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUINDIONE; MICONAZOLE; NADROPARIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NIMESULIDE; PARACETAMOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; POLYPHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELF MEDICATION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; DATA COLLECTION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; PATIENT ADMISSION; POLYPHARMACY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF MEDICATION;

EID: 67749145815     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200926060-00004     Document Type: Article

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