Emergency re-admissions to hospital due to adverse drug reactions within 1 year of the index admission

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 749-755

  Davies, Emma C ^a,b   Green, Christopher F ^c   Mottram, David R ^b   Rowe, Philip H ^b   Pirmohamed, Munir ^d  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Countess of Chester Health Park ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adverse drug reactions; Hospitals; Pharmacoepidemiology; Re admission

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALENDRONIC ACID; AMILORIDE; AMIODARONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; ATENOLOL; BUMETANIDE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CITALOPRAM; CLOPIDOGREL; DALTEPARIN; DICLOFENAC; DIGOXIN; ENALAPRIL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUROSEMIDE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; METFORMIN; MORPHINE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISOLONE; QUETIAPINE; RAMIPRIL; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TELMISARTAN; TRAMADOL; UNINDEXED DRUG; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANDIDIASIS; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GOUT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH ULCER; TORSADE DES POINTES;

ADULT; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 78649289031     PISSN: 03065251     EISSN: 13652125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2010.03751.x     Document Type: Article

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