Do Emergency Physicians Attribute Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits to Medication-Related Problems?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Hohl, Corinne M ^a,b,c   Zed, Peter J ^d,e   Brubacher, Jeffrey R ^a,b,c   Abu Laban, Riyad B ^a,b,c   Loewen, Peter S ^a,f   Purssell, Roy A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT NON COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 77952323675     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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