Adverse drug reactions in internal medicine units at a university hospital: A descriptive pilot study

Colombia Medica

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-51

  López, Luis Carlos ^a   Botero, Marcela ^a   Pino, Jaime ^a   Ramírez, Jorge Hernán ^b   Palacios, Mauricio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ICESI   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Hospitalized patients; Pharmacological surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIKACIN; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMLODIPINE; ANTACID AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BILE ACID SEQUESTRANT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOPIDOGREL; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; LINCOSAMIDE; OPIATE; OSMOTIC DIURETIC AGENT; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SALBUTAMOL; SULFONAMIDE; TERBUTALINE; TRAMADOL; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART PALPITATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICATION ERROR; MELENA; MORBIDITY; MYALGIA; NARANJO ALGORITHM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PROPHYLAXIS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; WARD;

EID: 77950452750     PISSN: 16579534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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